A story is told of a man who enjoyed spending time with his little boy. One day, he took his son to McDonald's. The boy was excited!
As they went, the little boy kept hoping that his father would buy him a big packet of french fries. When the french fries came, the little boy smiled. It was upsized!
But when the father reached out his hand to take some fries from his son, the boy immediately protected the fries with his little arms and looked angrily at his father. "These fries are mine!" he shouted.
The little boy was too focused on having the french fries. And at the end of the day, he had forgotten the whole purpose of the trip.
Like the boy, many of us wonder about the size of fries that God intends to give us. And when we get a smaller packet, we start wondering if we have made God upset. Yet, perhaps God is more interested in us as individuals than the size of the packet of fries on the table.
- Victor Teo, God, Money and the Singaporean Me
"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised." - Job 1:21 (NIV)
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