LIKE A BANNY ROOSTER

So I was thinking about how I would act if God actually gave me a "Christian" lunchbox.
Ya'll I would be struttin' around like a banny rooster.
I would be so proud of myself.
I can see it now.
Strut into the lunch room at work (assuming I go back to work, otherwise I will just have to crash someone else's work).
Casually slide that bad boy out to the center of the table.
Someone says "Nice lunchbox"
I reply " Yeah....It's from God"
Can you see me puffin' my plumage out as I say it?
"I am one of His. Aren't you?"
A pitiful mess I would be.
The question is not bad.
I am one of His. Aren't you?
That is exactly what I should be telling people.
Not proudly, but in humility.
See... here is what He has given me.
Eternal life.
Forgiveness of sin.
Relationship with the Father.
The Comforter.
Jesus Christ.
Those bad boys I can show off to everyone at lunch.
At work.
At Wal-Mart.
God in His great wisdom knew.
He knew that to appreciate what we had been given, we must never forget it had been GIVEN.
Not earned, not merited, not deserved.
GIVEN.
To flash our card, we must give of ourselves.
Not because people have earned it or deserved it or even merit it.

We love because He first loved us.
1 John 4:19 (NIV)