So there are three levels of how to live with things:
(1) you can steal to get,
(2) or you can work to get,
(3) or you can work to get in order to give.
Many of us live on level two.
Almost all of the forces of our culture urge us to live on level two.
But the Bible is unrelenting in pushing us to level three.
–John Piper
Ephesians 4:28 states that we should not be in level one and that we should move past level two straight into level three: “He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.”
In what level do you find yourself living?
Are you following our cultural norms and expectations and living in level 2?
Or have you allowed God to transform you so that you are living in level 3 where life is not about you, but about pleasing Him and serving others?
Keep moving from where you are to where God wants you to be.