What's important to you? Try this, imagine that there is a flood and you are evacuating. You have a few minutes to throw in the car 8-10 things. Everything else would be ruined in the flood, lost to looters, gone. What would it be? Round 2 - Imagine you wake up in the night and the house in on fire. You have to get out now. What do you grab on the way out of the door. What is important to you?
This exercise really isn't fair. The lists will focus on the things that are the hardest to replace. The file with birth certificates and other documents makes the list because of this reason. There is a lot of information on the computer that I hate to lose. Can't forget the photo albums and the paintings. In the fire example I often think of my glasses and a pair of shoes as being important. Oh yeah, we should get the family out too. I wonder how the list would change if there were no insurance and every thing we didn't take was really gone and not to be replaced.
God calls us to have a lose hold of our possessions. Every thing that we own, own's us. There is the maintenance and the responsibility of looking after it. The things that we hold tightly can be a hindrance to the purpose that he has for us.
I have tried to picture what it would be like to sacrifice my son. I have tried, but to be honest, there is no scenario that I picture where I actually go through with it. I know in the Bible that Abraham did not have to sacrifice Isaac, but Abraham didn't know that at the time. I know intellectually that my family is already God's and not mine. I know that no matter how much I love my family God loves them more. But being honest, I can't picture how I would be able to do it. Maybe Abraham thought the same thing on the way up the mountain. Maybe that's why God built a nation through Abraham and not through me.
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