April 10, 2007 by Pastor Dan.

People always talk about the “gets”:

• Get to heaven
• Get a good job
• “Get a life!!”
• get saved
• get ahead
• get going
• get lost!

Advertisers ask us if we’ve “got milk.” If you don’t you have to get it, so go to the store and get some today.

It’s a pity that more people “don’t get it” in life – because life is not about what you get out of it!

But — All is a gift:

• Life is a gift.
• What we have in life are not the rewards of our hard work, but a gift in trust.
• Our relationships are gifts – how that would transform what we expect and what we “get out of” them!!
• Our talents and abilities, even our genes, are gifts.
• if you think in spiritual terms, realize that salvation is a gift.
• Christ is a gift, grace is a gift, heaven is a gift, love is a gift.

Once we understand the giftedness of life, life is no longer what you “get out of it.” Life is what you put into it, based on your gifts.

I could go on about this at some length, but why? The greatest truths in life are simple, and I think this is quite possibly one of the simplest and greatest of spiritual truths. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out, nor a guru to teach it. Open your mind to take hold of this: life and everything worth living is a gift.

—Pastor Dan Hooper

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