Orange Moon Wednesday, July 30, 2025 “The Owner and Sole Proprietor”

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…

"The Owner and Sole Proprietor"

  

   

    

   Peace ensues when we realize we do not belong to ourselves - a foolish and ill-fated notion - but rather to the One who made us, and who alone can effectually care for His own.

"I am Thine."

(Psalm 119:94)

    When Adam and Eve embraced the lie that "ye shall be as gods," the delusion and illusion of personal ownership and autonomy infected the heart of humanity (Genesis 3:5).  In a creation originated and sustained by God, and which relies upon Him in every second for continued existence, only one owner can be known as "the possessor of heaven and earth" (Colossians 1:17; Genesis 14:22).  Angels belong to Him, human beings belong to Him, and everything that exists belongs to Him.

    "The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein" (Psalm 24:1).

   This factual reality forever abides, whether we know and embrace it or not.  Our personal experience of reality, however, ebbs and flows in accordance with how well we affirm within our hearts that "ye are not your own" (I Corinthians 6:19).  Wisdom decrees that we  build and frequently return to the heart altar whereupon we sacrifice any notion that we bear the capacity to own and govern ourselves.  Thereby, we progressively walk in truth and reality rather than illusion and delusion.  The Psalmist's "I am thine" must pave the path of our lives, the only way of peace our feet can find, and the only haven of rest our hearts can know.  "I trusted in Thee, o Lord. I said, Thou art my God" (Psalm 31:14).

    Look for no peace apart from the growing realization of God as the sole proprietor of all things, and of ourselves.  Expect much peace as we remember and affirm that "we are His" (Psalm 100:3).  Moreover, born again believers belong to God personally, as part of His family through the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ as the indwelling life of our lives (Galatians 4:6).  This is peace indeed, the only peace possible in a lifetime and eternity where we joyfully acknowledge to the Owner and Sole Proprietor, "I am Thine."

"Yield yourselves unto God as those which are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God."

(Romans 6:13)

Weekly Memory Verse 

    I hate vain thoughts, but Thy law do I love.

(Psalm 119:113)

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