Having turned it on halfway through the program, I couldn’t tell you all the details. I didn’t need them to ponder for days on what I heard, in fact, am still pondering.
The minister was young at that time. I don’t know how, but he’d managed to connect with a successful businessman who came to the LORD later in life who realized how selfish he’d been and wanted to give back. The businessman presented a checkbook to the minister and told him to bless others as he saw fit at his expense. Can you imagine? I thought of the possibilities of having access to something like that and let my imagination run wild as to what I’d do in that situation. Of course the story was meant to drive home a point. What about us? Are we willing to offer our lives as a “blank check” to God? We pray to the LORD, but is He lord of all? or some? Do we have “untouchables” in our lives?
I wrote last year about my awe of Mary and Joseph and how sometimes I think we become so familiar with the Christmas story that we forget that these were real people with real plans. Like most of us, they daydreamed about how their lives would unfold. But their lives didn’t unfold like a neat package; it was messy. Mary and Joseph were willing to let their reputations be trashed. When the LORD spoke they answered and acted immediately. They let God’s truth in their hearts trump the opinions of others. They endured hardships to fulfill prophecies. And they did so not fully comprehending the impact their obedience would have on generations to come. They offered God a blank check. They offered Him their entire lives.
So I ask again. What about us? Are we willing to enter a new year and offer to Jesus as a belated birthday gift a blank check? Feels weighty, doesn’t it? I had an intense conversation and admission to the LORD that I have reservations. I shamefully confess that sometimes I revert to fear in gifting a blank check, but I want to want to. And yet, like I also said to my LORD, fear is uncalled for. Who has good plans for us? Who has our best interest at heart? Who loves us most in this entire world? Who loves us most outside of this world? For God so loved the world that He gave…
He gave us everything. Are you willing to join me and seriously consider, I mean really consider, entering 2026 and unreservedly offer to God a blank check?
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV
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