Bagels Have Gone Up

Colossians 1:10  Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.

A story is told about a vendor who sold bagels for 50 cents each at a street corner food stand. A jogger ran past and threw a couple of quarters into the bucket but didn’t take a bagel. He did the same thing every day for months. One day, as the jogger was passing by, the vendor stopped him. The jogger asked, “You probably want to know why I always put money in but never take a bagel, don’t you?” “No,” said the vendor. “I just wanted to tell you that the bagels have gone up to 60 cents.”

We kind of treat God the same way. Instead of being grateful for his blessings, we complain when we don’t get everything we want. We want more and more, somehow thinking that God owes us something. We get spoiled and think that God should bless us without any work from us.

Instead of that attitude, we need to follow today’s verse. Notice the order Paul gives us: we live to honor and please God, our lives produce good fruit, we grow and get to know God better.

Galatians 5:22-23 gives us the list of good fruit that living in Christ produces: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These attributes makes us better Christians and better people. It all starts with us living to please and honor God.

Yes, bagels have gone up, but as we grow in Christ he gives us enough to cover the cost!

Today’s Readings: 1 Kings 16; 2 Chronicles 15,16; Colossians 1

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