This quote is often used to tell people that we should pay taxes... and thats about it. I think thats true, but they are missing so much in this verse. Yes we should "render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's" but read the end of that verse one more time. "and to God the things that are God's". Think with me for a moment, whose image were we made in? In whose likeness have we been molded? Honestly I haven't spent a ton of time examining this verse, but I was reading it tonight and it struck me.... What is it that we must render to God? I think all of us know that we are to give our lives to Christ and that we owe everything to Him. That being said, ask yourself "how much of myself am I giving up to God?" I often think to myself at nighttime "how did I use today to intentionally glorify God?" I find it really sad when I have to search my mind real hard to find just one example I used my time to glorify the one who is deserving of all devotion, praise, honor, majesty, love, (an endless list of things) and glory. My hope and desire is that my life will be so incredibly focused on Christ that I will no longer be distracted by little things like money, my time and my life... things that are so worthless when compared to Christ. I pray that I would be so crazily in love with God that that love would overflow and be an ever present example of how we are loved by God.
-Matthew 22:20-21
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