You Don't Deserve "It"

Do we deserve it? I suppose I should define "it." "It" is our status in our culture, our wealth, our security. "It" is what they are selling on TV and can buy through e-bay and Google. Do we deserve "it."

The poor don't have "it." They see "it" and often get close to "it" but are never really within arms reach of "it" as it shimmers and shines, mocking those who don't have what "it" takes.

But for most of us we are all to willing to give up what "it" takes. Our houses are cluttered, our garbage runneth over, plastic doohickeys and gluttonous closets full of clothes we will never wear...all to show "it" off.

But are we willing to give "it" up? So often we believe we deserve all the "it" we have received and bought. That we earned it through years of school and hard work and discipline. Pride fills us up to believe so but pride is a shrewd fox with a viper's venom.

As long as we believe we have earned "it" we can blame those without "it" for not having "it" because they did not earn "it." Lazy bastards, though we would never say that out loud. But they did not choose where they were born. They did not ask to be born into poverty, to start 10 feet behind the starting line and asked to run the same race, to receive a poor education in a poor neighborhood. They did not ask to be children in a place where violence lives to take all of "it" away. They do not deserve this, but they might just deserve "it."

But do we? In our cluttered houses, our garbage that runneth over, and our gluttonous closets. Do we deserve "it." No, no we did not ask to be born to rich parents, to nice neighborhoods with good schools, it was a blessing, a grace given to us by God. A grace not to be accumulated and gorged upon but to be shared and given away.

Do we deserve "it"? Not when we turn blind eyes and deaf ears upon people who God loves too.