November 27

If anyone asks, ‘Why are you untying it?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it.’” — Luke 19:31 BSB

It’s a good practice to hold everything we have at Christ’s disposal. When the disciples untied the colt, and the owner asked, “Why are you untying it?” they answered, “The Lord needs it.” The owner immediately let them take the animal.

This is how we should be with everything we own. Whenever the Lord asks for something of ours, we should be willing to give it. Sometimes, Christ asks for things that are very dear to us, and it may break our hearts to give them up. But if He asks, we must let Him have His way.

When a young woman was preparing to leave for a foreign mission field, a neighbor said to her mother, “I don’t know how you can bear to let her go.” The mother replied, “I gave my daughter to Christ when she was born. I didn’t know what He would ask of her, but now that I do, I must let Him have His way.”