Gifts

Two Thoughts:

One - I love the picture of gifts. It blows my mind how much God has been trying to show this to me.
God has truly blessed us with a million gifts.
If our trust must be earned...He has unequivocally earned our trust by sending Jesus.
On top of all of that...if God has already given us the greatest gift of all, how will He not also graciously give us all things? - Romans 8
That is a thought which absolutely blows my mind.
He is so good.
And it's only when our own selfishness gets in the way, that we fail to see this.
When our own self gets in the way of God's perfect gifts...we become stale, starved and joy-less creatures.
Perspective is everything.

Second - "If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." - CS Lewis