Today’s Thought “Why Don’t They Do Something?” G. Ward

Matthew 22

 ²¹ They said to Him, “Caesar’s.” Then He said to them, “Then pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.”

 

While civic responsibility is mandated (Ro.13:1-2), the believer is ultimately owned by Holy God, not government, and whereas our Lord demonstrated how any should correlate in this strange land, HIS preparation unto us insisted we live as citizens of Heaven – for ETERNITY awaits.

HE’S KING of any/every king and whether they acknowledge it or not, our compliance is demanded. Instead, the presumed believer of this era discounts all their predecessors endured (i.e., great sufferings), feeling a need to awaken the Almighty (who never slumbers) to earthen realities; but HE won’t be your genie in a bottle, even disgusted by such mistrust of HIS Sovereign Control of everything and whereas those HE loved (the Israelites) were rescued from Egypt, their travailing through dessert regions insisted on “milk and honey” before their arrival to the Promised Land, to be denied; for their grumbling was indicative of their hearts (Jer.17:9-10). HE loves us in the same, yet HIS justice demanded from finite beings is believably desired, until failure in recognizing HIS sacrifice is/can be mostly overshadowed in bouts with euphoria in a temporary space and time.