The Earth Is the Lord's (Psalm 24:1)

On Sunday, August 2, Pastor Jeff McLain preached at River Corner Church from Psalm 24, with a special focus on verses 1–2. Together we explored how these opening words serve as a liturgy of reorientation. As we confess, "The earth is the Lord's," God reshapes the way we see, believe, and live, reorienting us to lives of worship, gratitude, stewardship, and faithful witness.

Psalm 24 reminds us that nothing falls outside God's ownership or our responsibility to steward what He has entrusted to us. God is not only interested in our spiritual lives. He entrusts us with different kinds of capital, yet He remains the owner of every one of them. 

That means God cares about our physical capital—our health and well-being; our relational capital—the relationships we cultivate within our families and in the places where we live, work, worship, and play; our intellectual capital—the way we think, learn, and grow in wisdom; our financial capital—the resources entrusted to us and the way we manage them; and our material capital—even the ordinary possessions we own and use each day. Everything we have is held in trust and is meant to be stewarded faithfully for the glory of God.

Psalm 24 becomes a liturgy of reorientation. As we confess that "the earth is the Lord's," we are reoriented to lives of worship, gratitude, stewardship, and faithful witness.