All things are yours

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<p id="viewer-30rd5">Insecurities. Idolisation. Wannabes. Greed. Sycophancy. Suck-ups etc.... these are some of the things that plague the human mind. But are believers immune from these? The Bible says all things are yours. <em>And if all things are yours</em>, why would you need to idolise anyone or anything?</p>

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<p id="viewer-ckkim">When a sense of insecurity in your abilities tempts you to idolise someone stronger, more competent, more esteemed, more gifted, more secure, don’t do it. You don’t need to do it, because all things are yours. Really? Yes!!!</p>

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<p id="viewer-7ptjp">When a sense of insignificance permeates you in a world of social media propaganda and you are tempted to attach yourself to someone or some group that’s more prominent, more shrewd, more published, more successful, more admired, more urbane, don’t do it. You don’t need to do it, because all things are yours. Really? Yes!!!</p>

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<p id="viewer-2jdq3">You are not the victim of this world. You own it. It is not your master. It is your servant. Everything in the world, and everything that happens on it is working together for your greatest and longest good. Really? Yes!!!</p>

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<blockquote class="wp-block-quote" id="viewer-fm2k5"><p><strong>You are not the victim of this world. You own it. It is not your master. It is your servant. Everything in the world, and everything that happens on it is working together for your greatest and longest good.</strong></p></blockquote>

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<p id="viewer-chq50">Life is yours. All of it — all your life — is yours. You don’t belong to it. It belongs to you. You are not attached to life. Life is attached to you. Life follows you. Life — all of it — serves you. Now and Forever. Really? Yes!!!</p>

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<p id="viewer-b7g6d">The present is yours. All things are yours now. All things do not begin to serve you at some future time. They are serving you now. Every moment of your life is yours. Every moment is your servant. Every moment — the sad moments, the happy moments, the fearful moments, the bold moments, the lonely moments, the grieving movements, the ecstatic moments, the sleeping moments — all the moments, the present is yours. You are not the slave of time or chance or any sequence of events. You own them. They are yours. They serve you. Really? Yes!!!</p>

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<p id="viewer-311kq">The future is yours. Nothing will come to you in the future — the future of ten seconds from now or ten days or ten months or ten years or ten decades — nothing will come to you that is not serving you. You do not belong to the future; the future belongs to you. Really? Yes!!!</p>

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<p id="viewer-1atq2">“Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future — all are yours” (<a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/1%20Cor%203.21%E2%80%9322"><u>1 Corinthians 3:21–22</u></a>).</p>

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<p id="viewer-2srom">How can this be? Because you are Christ’s and Christ is God’s.</p>

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<p id="viewer-c96s1">How do you know if you are Christ’s? <a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Rom%208.9"><u>Romans 8:9</u></a>: “<em>Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ is not his.” If you have the Spirit you are his.</em></p>

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<p id="viewer-ej8d7">And this Spirit of Christ in you is not the spirit of slavery, but that of sonship. He bears witness with your spirit that you are a child of God, and if a child, then an heir — a heir of God and a fellow heir with Christ (<a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Rom%208.16%E2%80%9317"><u>Romans 8:16–17</u></a>).</p>

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<p id="viewer-1bfqr">All things are yours because you are Christ’s — Christ’s body, Christ’s bride, Christ’s subject, Christ’s sibling, Christ’s fellow-heir.</p>

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<blockquote class="wp-block-quote" id="viewer-d68op"><p><strong>All things are yours because you are Christ’s — Christ’s body, Christ’s bride, Christ’s subject, Christ’s sibling, Christ’s fellow-heir.</strong></p></blockquote>

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<p id="viewer-t0k2">And why does belonging to Christ make all things yours? Because Christ is God’s. “You are Christ’s and Christ is God’s.”</p>

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<p id="viewer-pv9k">Christ is God’s Son. Christ is God’s Word (<a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/John%201.1"><u>John 1:1</u></a>). Christ is God’s image (<a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/2%20Cor%204.4"><u>2 Corinthians 4:4</u></a>). Christ is God’s Beloved (<a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matt%2017.5"><u>Matthew 17:5</u></a>). Christ is God’s radiance (<a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Heb%201.3"><u>Hebrews 1:3</u></a>). Christ is God’s essence (<a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Heb%201.3"><u>Hebrews 1:3</u></a>). Christ is God’s heir (<a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Heb%201.2"><u>Hebrews 1:2</u></a>).</p>

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<p id="viewer-evsli">All that God the Father is or can be or can do for one like himself he is and does for Christ.</p>

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<p id="viewer-46bfb">And because you are Christ’s, all the Father is, or can be, or can do for a creature, he is and does for you because you are Christ’s.</p>

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<blockquote class="wp-block-quote" id="viewer-dcdai"><p><strong>Therefore, do not boast in men, boast in Christ.</strong></p></blockquote>

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<p id="viewer-12qrg">Be done with all worry, and all feelings of insecurity, and all fears of insignificance, and all craving for secondhand importance.</p>

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<p id="viewer-2eit4">Walk and work with a consciousness and confidence that no matter what comes to you in this world — tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, sword — all things are yours and they serve for your glory.</p>

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<p id="viewer-26qdn">“So let no one exult proudly concerning men [boasting of having this or that man as a leader], for all things are yours, Whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas (Peter), or the universe or life or death, or the immediate and threatening present or the [subsequent and uncertain] future–all are yours, And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.”</p>

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<p id="viewer-e9cvf">‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭3:21-23‬ ‭AMPC‬‬</p>

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