This week my kids purchased gifts for their teachers. I find this practice an interesting concept. It seems a bit like tipping a waitress, only we entrusted our children to her for 6 hours a day and expected her to provide them with an education and hopefully reinforce the same values and expectations we have. She is grossly underpaid and under-resourced. She somehow convinced my child that learning was a good thing and worth time and effort. She kept a good attitude despite the stress I know my child caused in her life.
So we bought her some nice smelling stuff.
This just doesn’t seem right. But we do it every year.
As I pondered this, started wondering if we haven’t begun to treat all that God does for us like we do our kids’ teachers. Scripture says that in Him we live and breath and have our being. He is the author of life. He is our redeemer. He is the giver of all good gifts. And the list goes on…
So we come to church (usually) and throw a little cash in the basket.
This just doesn’t seem right. But we do it every year.
Under the Mercy,
Jason
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