For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
"The truth that ’everything’ we have ’comes from’ God is the foundation for the doctrine of stewardship. Its basis is this: since our property is his (Psalms 24:1), and since we hold it only temporarily and in trust (1 Chronicles 29:15-16), it should therefore be used for him (Luke 17:10 . . .)." [Note: Payne, "1, 2 Chronicles," p. 438. See also idem, The Theology of the Older Testament, pp. 434-35.] 