Free Gifts Vs Free Will
I remember when I was a child of 6 or 7 years old. My mother used to give both my brother and I some amount of money to be put into the church collection bags.
One day, both my brother and I, thought that the amount was too much, and we had other interest to spend the money for our own interests. So instead of putting them into the bags, we put the money into our own pockets.
Later, when my mother found out about this, she was angry. And in her disappointment, she uttered these words “Such a disgrace what you both just did. Didn’t I give you money for your own? Why still taking something that’s not belong to you? Why not giving it away as I’ve told you to?”
The money however, pictures the gifts God has equipped us with. They are freely came from God. We are not picking them from elsewhere, nor buy them on our own efforts. So not to take any pride of having them either. Nevertheless, we are obliged to use them to serve Him in appropriate time, place and situation. To glorify His name. However, the choice lays in our hands. Whether we’re going to use them for God’s glory, or to use them for our own goods, or to neglect them and bury them instead.
~ All came freely from God, All goes rightly to God~
