Tenant or Owner! Which are you?

23“The land must never be sold on a permanent basis, for the land belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me." NKJV

Todays reading was strange at first.  Then I had to go back and read exact what God was talking about.  This was a longer chapter so in order to understand this one passage you would need to go back and read the entire chapter. 

God was saying that the people would one day possess land in Canaan, but in God's plan, only God's ownership was absolute. He wanted his people to avoid greed and materialism. If you have the attitude that you are taking care of the Lord's property, you will make what you have more available to others. This is difficult to do if you have an attitude of ownership. Think of yourself as a manager of all that is under your care, not as an owner.

Everything that we are given in life comes from the Lord in the first place.  The Lord can give as well as He can take away.  We have to make sure that no matter what we are given in life we understand that the Lord is true owner of it and all we have the opportunity to do is to take care of it and make sure that He gets all the glory from whatever it is that we have.