Don’t Mess With Taxes (Mark 12:13-17)

“Whose image were you made in? You and I, we belong to the Lord. Not just a once-a-year tax of a single day’s wage, but everything. It’s His breath in our lungs. It is by His mercies we are not consumed. It’s His life that makes us alive. Christians, you bear His image. His name is engraved on your heart. And you give to God the things that are God’s by loving Him with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul, all your strength.

The question is: Have we tried to steal the treasure of our lives away? Has this treasure, your life, been buried in a field somewhere? Not adorning the Body of the King, but lost in the dirt? Have we run off with our lives in pursuit of our own purposes, our own greatness, clumsily carving our own name and message on our lives, with a bunch of errors and mistakes along the way?

It’s not too late to give ourselves over to the Lord for His purposes. He can accomplish a new work even if we’ve been lost in a field for far too long. God can restore you, display you, tell a new story of His grace through your life as you return it to Him, the rightful Owner.“