Free Refills

"22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God."
-1 Peter 1:22-23

The coffee shop I'm sitting in used to have free refills. But now, I've got to savor each sip. War is waged over a scarcity of resources. When you think what you've got is going to run out there is a tendency to hoard it. You live thinking that you'd better suck every moment out of life while you can because eventually you will lose it. It will be taken from you, you'll miss out.

It is difficult, with this way of thinking, to truly love others. (Get your own coffee.) To love, to serve, to give goes against everything in us. To give will only bring us a quicker loss of the limited.

Unless what we have is unlimited--unperishable. Peter is telling us that we can love deeply and freely because it is impossible to lose that which is infinite. This is the living water, the well that never goes dry. Whatever we give up we will receive back 100-fold--Money, dream job, dream home, dream whatever (Mk. 10:30). Do we actually think that thing we want so much is really what we're after and not just a dim reflection?

There are free refills in heaven.