Lord of Everything

"I said to the Lord, You are my Lord, apart from You I have no good thing." Psalm 16:2

Who else but to the Lord would you ever say, "You are my Lord?" Seems obvious enough. Yet, sometimes something else becomes our lord. Or, we get so obsessed with something you’d think it was our lord. The safeguard against such faulty temptation is to remind ourselves that God provides everything and owns everything. Outside of Him, there is no good thing. Unless He is the Lord of anything you can think of, it cannot be good.

Things can be anything: a person, possession or plan. The Lord absolutely must be Lord of everything in our lives. If not, then it is an idol and not a good thing.

These things that we just have to have whether they be small or large, expensive or inexpensive, important or trivial, these things must be subject to the Lordship of Christ.

An excellent test for things is to give them to God and ask Him to bless them and thank Him for them. This gets difficult when it comes to things we shouldn’t have or that we are tempted by or are gotten to impress people or that take up all of our time, talent and treasure. The most important thing to us should be easiest to let Him be Lord and not become our little or big idols. Actually, things are not bad in and of themselves, but we can so easily turn a good thing into something else entirely. We can make something bad out of nothing at all, if it suits our purpose. At the bottom line we all have the capability to struggle over things, even though we know we shouldn’t. Maybe at the crux of this matter is not necessarily the thing itself, but who the Lord of it is. If the Lord is not the Lord of it, it is my guess that the enemy has us thinking that we are the Lord of it, when in effect it is the Lord of us, and the devil has us right where he wants us, with him (the devil) in control, instead of HIM (the Lord) in control. We will not find happiness in things, but in Him being Lord of everything.

Letting go and letting God,
Pastor Fred

Tweet