Job 1: 20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, 21 And said naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
The rich, and the poor go down to their graves the same exact way, as far as owning anything goes. And it was this grim reality that dawned upon Job, as he went through his learning curve of trials. All of his earthly possessions were not really his, he was just a steward of God’s blessings, and when this truth dawned upon his mind, he concluded that we are just strangers in this world, passing through but for a brief moment, and that everything in the material world is ultimately God’s own, to dispose of at His discretion.
Michael Jackson left a catalog of songs which he had previously bought from the Beetles that is currently worth over half a billion dollars. He had to leave it all behind, when he died. The faithful who believe in God also have to leave it all behind, because we had never really owned anything on this planet. Abraham had to leave it all behind, Lot and his wife had to leave it all behind, and Bernie Madoff had to leave it all behind.
And to those persons who are currently billionaires, when their numbers are called in heaven, they too, will have to leave it all behind. We reiterate again, that we are born as stewards and we die as stewards, hence the reason why the doctrine of ownership is so critically important for us to grasp, for it gives us the correct perspective on the temporal things of this earth, which are to be managed in the context of stewardship.
Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.