Lease or Own?

 

One of the key aspects of acquiring a new car these days is the decision whether to lease or own the car.  If you lease, typically your payments are lower because you're only paying for two or three years of depreciation in the value of the car.  Of course, when you buy, you pay for the entire car.  There is no generalization that can be made as to which is the better approach.  Either can make sense depending on individual circumstances.  One of the reasons we like to purchase the car is for the real sense of ownership...to really know that it is "your car".  Today it struck me that there is an analogy to our own lives.  I think we tend to feel that we "own" our lives.  We can carry an expectation that this life we own will keep on running and we expect to reach ojur goals and generally be happy.  Our orientation so easily is to our personal agenda as we move from day to day.  But we don't like to think about trading in the old model.  We may do well to think of our lives, here in the flesh, as being "on lease".  What begins here in the body will continue in a different form, with a continued purpose in the eternal dimension.  It is good to remember that, unlike the cars we acquire, our lives were given to us...both our natural lives and our spiritual lives (through God's grace and Jesus' faithfulness)...The One who has brought us life is the one who brings meaning and value to it and He has defined a form of life that will go on and on.  We travel in leased vehicles that we will exchange when the lease is up for new models that will serve us better for the rest of the journey.

 

1 Corinthians 15:43-45 "it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
      If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit."

 

blessings,

Rob Smith

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