Sunday Thoughts... 🙏

As people do we really have the right to be the arbiters of what is right and wrong in someone else’s life? I’m going to pick on cars for a minute, but this can really apply to anything of extrinsic value...

Is a $5,000 car more acceptable than say $50,000 car to HIM? There are plenty of people who would think that even a $5,000 car is an excessive gift.... or a $500 one for that matter. Especially when you look at the world from a global perspective.

So who decides? As men are we really in a position to be arbiters of right or wrong? I’m not talking about laws, but about moral issues. By giving a car to your child does that mean that you worship cars? Or does it even mean that you worship money? Or, conversely, maybe it means that you couldn’t care less about money because a truly selfish person/parent would have kept it all for themselves. You can look at it in so many different ways. I think at the end of the day, YOU have to decide where your heart is placed and what your intentions are, independent of others’ opinions.

I’m asking an earnest question... Who among us is so worthy and noble as to draw that line... to decide what number God may deem appropriate or what number would damn you to hell?

As a Christian, do you really believe that God is sitting up in heaven saying, “well, he should’ve stayed under 40k, but since he went to 42k, I will smite him”?

If you’re not a believer, or you just worship the universe or believe you are the universe, does that give you the moral compass to decide on such matters so personal to someone else?

Do you believe that having money means you are inherently bad and not having money means you’re noble?

I’ve met plenty of a**h***! without money...and plenty of saints with money. I don’t think one has anything to do with the other, personally.

Maybe you believe, as I do, that God knows what’s in your heart and from what place a gift, be it extravagant or not, was coming from? Bottom line is I really don’t think God cares about the materialistic gifts and to whom you choose to bestow them on; I think he cares about your heart, the condition of your heart, and your heart’s intentions.

It is your heart, your spirit HE wants...and you can’t put a price on that.

Mark 12:17

“give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God.”