The brown delivery truck is making its way around our neighborhood again. I can see the delivery man dropping boxes at each doorway. I wonder if he ever feels tempted to just drive the whole truck to his own home and keep all the packages for himself. Or does he ever go and sit in the back of his truck during lunch breaks, open some boxes, and feel like it would be okay to play with some of the more interesting gadgets?
I think we are all assigned a truckload of blessings--talents, opportunities, friends, insights, experiences, money, time, energy, health, skills, and freedoms. It is tempting to use it for our own benefit. We imagine we deserve what’s in our truck, or that we earned it through hard work.
“When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required.” (Luke 12:48 NLT)
We are all meant to be delivery men/women. We are entrusted with blessings, given an assigned route, and sent out daily to fulfill this purpose. We need to resist the temptation to indulge ourselves with what has been given to us. The more blessings you have been given, the more work you have to do...so get going with those deliveries!
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