We have greedy hands. Even as small children, we reach out and say, “Mine!” As adults we build fences and put locks on our doors. We put our marriage vows on our fingers and passwords on our computers.
“Not greedy,” we cry! Oh, no! We’re being sensible. Otherwise, people will come in and take what’s ours. As we said earlier, we have greedy hands, even if we insist those hands belong to someone else.
What does God’s Word say about the things that matter so much to us? We can read of it in Revelation 11:15:
“Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.’ ”
That twenty in our wallet, in the hidden pocket? It is now God’s. Our spouse, protected by our vows? Now God’s. Our car? Our vacation home? Our 401K? They are all now God’s.
Opening our hands and turning loose is hard. How can any of us do this? Read about it in 1 Corinthians 11:1:
“Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.”
If we imitate the Christ who sacrificed himself upon the cross, we will understand that all we have is now God’s. Even the air we breathe and the spirit that animates our bodies are his.
How can we truly be imitators of Christ? We find our help in Hebrews 11:4:
“By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous…”
It is when we offer all we have to God that we allow our kingdoms to become his. Then and only then, we have become true imitators of the Christ.
When we give all we have to God, he is able to become the focus of all that we are.
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