It is an
insightful thing to ask what words we all first learn after “mama” and
“dada”. Soon after those two words
escape the lips of your typical two-year-old, the next ones are “no” and “mine”
- words that, however cute they sound from a small child, nevertheless
symbolize our penchant for rebellion (“no”) and our struggle to give
(“mine”). And yet, as John Ortberg
points out in his book, When The Game Is Over, It All Goes Back In The Box, we
all know that the two-year-old did not really earn any of their stuff. It was a gift from someone much larger and
wiser.
Two-year-olds can be so deluded,
can’t they? Oh…that’s right. I am like that more than I care to
admit. Chances are likely that you and I
are in that same boat. So, what a
wonderful expression of worship to begin to shift the way we think about stuff
- that we are not the owners of it, but the managers of God’s stuff, which He
has graciously entrusted us with for His purposes. Perhaps we will start unlearning that mindset
we picked up so early on by adopting two new words: “yes” and “Yours”.
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