We all work hard to make something out of ourselves. Some of us have to work harder than others, maybe because of the side of the tracks we come from, maybe because of how many resources are availed to us from mommy and daddy. Maybe because of the country we are born in.
In the USA we talk a lot about being a self made man. (Sorry should have said person – maybe that is something we need to over come…) We say we pull ourselves up by our own boot straps. Well you know it is kind of hard to put boots on without using the boot straps. They are there to help us, because we can not do it on our own otherwise…
I have been reading the Hunger Games Trilogy and am over half way through Catching Fire. This series so far is an interesting look at life and the haves and the have nots and how when someone who was a have not wins at the games for the haves and becomes a haves even what they have still can be taken from them by the real haves. Makes me think of Job. Today’s lectionary reading Job 29:21-30:15 Job talks about how he is mocked by the people because he use to be a have and then he lost it all. So now they mock him and deride him. “Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.” He is pursued by terror and his honor and prosperity are taken away by the wind and he is left with nothing.
But isn’t this really like all of us? I mean who is really a have? Who can stand except for the fact that God lets us stand? Can not God take everything from us in the blink of an eye? (Careful how you answer that…) God is really the only have and we are merely players, and stewards in this game. Well it’s not a game, it is life, but we are only managers of what we have been given, we did not make it on our own. We did not make our lives ourselves, they were given to us. So us your life in service of the one who gave it to you. Not because if you don’t He will take it all away, but because it was a gift and therefore live out of a gracious heart and give what has been given to others.
help everyone see that they are really a have not and that they are loved and so have been gifted!
aSacredRebel 