Luke 20:23-25
He saw through their duplicity and said to them, “Show me a denarius. Whose portrait and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they replied. He said to them, “Then give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
When I look at my withholding tax deduction every pay day I feel like:
I mean c’mon, I work so hard and now this? And where would all those money go, to the pocket of some government officials? I feel like I’m being rob every time I look at my pay slip every pay day. But when I study Jesus, I realized that He never had the same resentment as I do with regard to taxes. He even willingly paid them. I know that the manner of paying was extra ordinary (Matthew 17:27) but the fact remained that He paid. So if the King of kings and the Lord of lords paid His taxes, I believe I might as well do so willingly. Now that a hard pill to swallow.
