Rental Car
I travel enough that rental cars have become a normal part of life for me.
And every time I get in one, I notice the same thing.
I use it.
I benefit from it.
I appreciate it.
But I never fully settle into it.
I don’t customize the settings too much.
I don’t get emotionally attached to it.
I don’t drive it like it's mine.
Because deep down, I know something important:
I’m only passing through with it.
And honestly…
That mindset might help us more in life than we realize.
Because we tend to grip temporary things like permanent possessions.
Titles.
Money.
Attention.
Success.
Even seasons of influence.
We start acting like owners
instead of stewards.
Jesus talked about that often.
Not because possessions are bad.
Not because success is wrong.
But because we forget how quickly things change.
Health changes.
Business changes.
People change.
Seasons change.
Life has a way of reminding us that almost everything we hold is, in some way, temporary.
That doesn’t make life meaningless.
It makes it sacred.
Because temporary things suddenly become valuable in a different way when we realize they were never guaranteed.
Maybe wisdom is learning to hold things with gratitude instead of ownership.
To enjoy them fully without worshipping them.
To care deeply without pretending we control how long they stay.
I think peace grows there too.
Not in clinging tighter.
But in realizing God never asked me to own everything.
Just to be faithful with what I’ve been given while it’s in my hands.
That made me think…
What if some of our anxiety comes from trying to permanently possess things that were only meant to be entrusted to us for a season?
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