On Loan

God has really laid on my heart a certain phrase these past few days... "It's on loan". He's also revealing to me that this applies to everything in life. Our abilities, our successes, our money, our children, our jobs - everything. God loans us these things so that while we have the opportunity with them we can use them to further His kingdom. That's it. It's not about us, it's not about how much we can gain from our successes; everything we have is on loan to us for a short time. We can't take the credit. All we need to do is thank the Lord that He's given us the vessels to use to glorify Him. I pray we can always remember that. Nothing is ours. Nothing is permanent. Everything is His. Everything is about HIM.