The Mustang 4
In 1992 I went on three short mission trips, two to Moscow, Russia and one to Caracas, Venezuela. My Mustang paid for two of them. It wasn’t hard for me to sell the car. What was hard was a few months earlier when I gave the car to God so that he could use it however he wanted.
The reason for a Christian to have stuff is to build the kingdom of God. Stuff can only make me actually happy when I am using it for that reason.
It was hard to give my car to God, but I had more happiness from that decision than I ever had from driving it. I had more benefit from travelling to Russia and Venezuela with the good news of Jesus than I ever had from travelling around my own city in a cool car.
Photo by Jozef Beckley
3 September 2008 Jeff Gill
tags: giving,
kingdom of god
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