A BELIEVER'S ATTITUDE TOWARD HIS PERSONAL PROPERTY

In the Book of Acts we read that "all that believed were together, and had all things common" (2:44). There was no precept for the communal living of the Church, which seems to have been what they were practicing at the time. Yet, the principle and attitude of those early believers about their personal property is clearly a gospel principle. These men and women recognized that they were one family in Christ. Whatever God had blessed them with in his good providence, they looked upon not as something given for their personal pleasure and gratification, but as goods entrusted to them for the welfare of God's family and the furtherance of the gospel of Christ.

Whatever the Lord has given us, individually and collectively, he has entrusted to us to use for his honor, for the welfare of his Church, and for the furtherance of the gospel. My home is an inn for God's children. My car is a vehicle to transport God's people from one place to another and God's servants from one town to another. My money is a bank account for the needs of God's church and his servants. What about my personal property? I have none. All that I am and all that I have belongs to Christ.