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One day a father decided to take his son to McDonalds for some French fries, because he knew how much his young son loved French fries. The boy was elated at his father’s offer, and so they drove to McDonalds. As they placed their order, the young son was surprised when his father told the lady behind the counter to super-size those fries, giving the boy the largest size of fries available.
When they sat down in their booth and began enjoying the food, the boy’s father reached out to help himself to one of his son’s French fries, and the boy blocked his father’s hand, saying, “These fries are mine, not yours.”
How incredulous is that! Think about it for a moment…
Whose suggestion was it to go get some fries? The Dad’s. Whose car did they drive to the restaurant and who paid for the gas in the car? The Dad. Who offered to get the super-size of fries, and then who paid for them? The Dad. Yes, the father then gave them to the son, but whose were they to begin with? The Dad’s.I wonder if that’s not how God feels sometimes. I wonder if that’s not the attitude and actions we sometimes display toward God. Who has supplied us with everything we are and everything we have? God has. And then when God asks that we give some back or allow Him to take some away, what is our reaction?
I’ll let you answer that question for yourself
–Excerpted and adapted from a sermon by David Owens, entitled, “The Joyful Givers,”http://bit.ly/1LdOY3X