It's All Yours

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 123, It's All Yours.

"Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all." 1 Chronicles 29:11.

This is David in his last great public moment. A king who conquered nations, built an empire, accumulated wealth no other king of Israel would ever match. And just moments before this, he had personally given — out of his own treasury — massive quantities of gold, silver, bronze, and iron for the temple Solomon was about to build.

And then, standing in front of the whole assembled nation, this man who had everything bows down. And the first thing out of his mouth isn't pride in his own generosity. It isn't "look what I gave." It's something else entirely: an outpouring of worship that acknowledges nothing — absolutely nothing — was ever really his to begin with.

Notice how he speaks. He doesn't reach for a single word to describe God. He stacks them: greatness, power, glory, victory, majesty. Five words, one after another, as if David is straining to reach something too large to fit in a single sentence. That is how true worship works — it always feels like the words are too small for what it's trying to say.

And then comes the line that changes everything: "all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours." This isn't beautiful rhetoric. It's practical theology. The gold David just donated? It was never his. It belonged to God, borrowed for a season, now returned to its rightful place. The victories in battle? They never came from David's sword — they came from God's hand. The kingdom, the throne, the crown — all borrowed. All returned in the end.

And that completely changes how we look at what we have. Your bank account, your house, your talent, your health, your time — none of it originated with you. It had divine origin before your name was ever written on it. David already knew this when he gave away the gold from his own treasury: he wasn't being generous in the ordinary sense. He was giving back something that was never his to begin with.

And there's one last line in this verse worth holding onto: "you are exalted as head above all." Whatever circumstance you're facing today — the financial worry, the medical news, the uncertainty at work, the fear about tomorrow — none of it is above God. He remains head over everything, even when everything feels out of control. Especially when it feels out of control.

So today, do what David did. Before breakfast, name one thing — a possession, an achievement, a victory you've been quietly proud of having earned on your own — and say out loud: "This is Yours, Lord." That is not losing something. That is giving back what was already His. And that is exactly what opens the door to real worship.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.