The Bigger, The Better

It’s a Texas thing.

Or Alaska or California. Maybe even Colorado.

If you get something bigger than me, I need to upgrade . . . and without delay.

You get a new truck? I need one that’s lifted. Yours is lifted? I want four-wheel-drive. You have that, too? Mine has to be a dually, maybe even a one-ton.

Or maybe I’ll get something bigger . . .

A YouTube personality from Utah is known for doing radical things to luxury cars. In 2020, he bought a brand-new Jeep Gladiator, the brand’s edgy and sought-after off-road truck. What did he do? Had it cut in half to add an extra axle at the back, to turn it into a six-by-six.

Bigger, baby. Yeah, that’s the thing.

Does that work in Christ? Bigger is better? We’re told to shun pride, to live modestly, and to share, share, share.

How can the Christian even imagine wanting the biggest and best? Isn’t that the opposite of the tenets that comprise the foundations of our walk with Jesus?

Read in 1 Corinthians 13:13:

“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

Hmm. Let’s think about this. It’s a familiar scripture . . .

So, you get faith, and I must one-up you with hope. Then, you get hope, and I feel the need to step-up my game. I need to be one-better, so I reach for love . . .

And God smiles and says, “You’re getting it, my child. That’s what I wanted you to have all along.”

The bigger, the better.

It’s not about pride or how modestly we live. It’s about sharing the goodness of Christ, no matter the cost to our time or our pocketbook.

Let’s be like Jesus. He had the biggest heart that’s ever walked this earth.

When we emulate Jesus, love is all the world will see in us.

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