At 91 years of age, my mother-in-law’s favorite distractions is a game of Scrabble. When I ask her to play her face lights up like a Christmas tree. Her response brings more joy than using all your letters on a triple word score square.
What lights you up? What do you look forward to the most? What are the bare essentials you don’t think you can live without?
Moses was offered a free pass all the way to the Promised Land: no more judgments from God to delay the process, no more long routes in order to learn a lesson. He passed on the offer because he’d have to give up the most precious thing in his life: his face to face relationship with God. I’d rather have Jesus than silver or gold; I’d rather be His than have riches untold.
Is that your song or does yours go like this: The best things in life are free; but you can keep ’em for the birds and bee; now give me money (that’s what I want)?