All Is God's

Before I move on from the topic of consecration, I want to expound briefly on something I touched on in the first of my recent blog posts about consecration. The idea is that "because the earth was created by Jesus Christ under the direction of Heavenly Father, everything on the earth belongs to them." It doesn't make sense to become too attached to what's "ours" because it's not really ours at all. God owns the Earth and everything on it. He created it. And even the things we create, we make out of things He gave us. So, when God asks us to give something up, we should try to remember that it was never really ours in the first place, and it was a blessing that God let us borrow it at all. Of course, we will still have the tendency to want to get and keep things, but deep down, we know that we won't be able to keep anything forever anyway, so it's a much better idea to use the things we have to do some good while we can. Possessions are temporary, but the rewards for using them for good are eternal.