Ah, a nice morning above the freezing mark. It's that time of the year once more. Those of you who pursue the procrastinating path now must produce a return or a procrastination pledge (also known as filing an extension). Those of you expecting a nice return probably filed your taxes weeks ago. Whichever the case may be, you and I may be guilty of a rather heinous sin. No, not cheating here and there, though that is a sin of dishonesty, but the sin of thinking we are remembered or forgotten, rich or poor, useful or useless, based on what our tax return says.
Look in the Bible to read what God thinks about you! Would Jesus give His one life to redeem a useless person? The fact that you are so poor that even the greedy government cannot find it in its stony heart to tax you does not mean that you are useless. The government revenue folks getting a little slobbery over the prospect of your return arriving does not make you too rich to be saved either. Most of all, we should not fall into that trap of thinking that God has forgotten us because of what our income is (or was not!). Neither should we give ourselves a pat on the back because we think God loves us more than last year due to the sheer mass of numbers on our tax return. I guess we should just remember that the tax form is a thing with numbers on it. So is the bank statement, the investment report, and many other forms this world holds dear and uses to categorize and judge us.
God doesn't require forms or send out surveys to help us judge our worth. He sent His Son to the cross at Calvary to show us that worth. That, my dear friends in Christ, is the strongest showing I can think of; why worry about what the tax return says about you or me?
Remember your worth in Christ,Bucky
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