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Who owns your life?

Who owns your life?Updated October 2025
I am all about owning your mistakes. I believe in taking ownership of my choices. I believe that life is a sequence of choices and a good life is based on good choices. I believe that playing the victim will only lead you to repeating the same mistakes over and over. If your failures are not your fault then that would mean that you did not fail and your way is still right, and will be repeated. Our life is a direct result of our choices, yet do we own our life?
As a Christian we learn that nothing we have is from our own works, but rather a gift from God. It is God who gave us life, its it is God who puts people into positions of authority, and it is God who created all things. God will harden one's heart and soften another's. It is God who is in control, and all glory belongs to Him and Him alone. But like everything, there is a duality in the ownership of our lives. Just like Good and Evil or Left and Right there is a duality behind our life choices and God's will for our lives.
What we need to understand, in my opinion, is that God is the owner of our lives but we are His stewards. We are called to take care of the life that God has lent us and when we return this life back to Him we will give account to Him for our successes and our failures. It is in this manner that our choices matter but our life is not our own. It's like driving a borrowed car for an extended period of time, we keep it clean and maintained for its true owner but we will pay for any damages we are responsible for.
Understanding that our lives are not our own, and have been bought at a price, but stewardship of that life has been given to us, is essential to understanding God's will for our lives. I heard it said that God gave us free will the ability to choose within His sovereign decree and that grace covers all sin, but what I don't hear is that God wants you to honor Him with what He has given you. I don't hear people talk about how God has freed us from the bondage of sin so we can choose to become a slave to righteousness freely, not because we have to but because we choose to, yet this choice is itself enabled and sustained by His Spirit. Not only did God create us but He also redeemed us, we are His twice over!
This stewardship is not passive. As those bought by the blood of the Word made flesh, Jesus, the eternal Logos through whom all things were made and sustained, we are called to active resistance. When Christian community, values, and lives come under attack, we do not shrink back. We stand. We speak. We protect. Because the life lent to us is not ours to surrender to evil. It is His, and we will give account for how we defended it.
The Responsible Christian

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