Perceptual rendering

‘…Has a dead man any use for money? Is it possible for a dead man to have money? What world does a dead man belong to? 'Tother world. What world does money belong to? This world. How can money be a corpse's?

Can a corpse own it, want it, spend it, claim it, miss it? Don't try to go confounding the rights and wrongs of things in that way. But it's worthy of the sneaking spirit that robs a live man.' – Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens

Money belongs to this world, Jesus taught this as well. And the dead to this world belong to the next.

And they questioned Him saying , “Teacher, we know that You speak and teach correctly, and You are not partial to any, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

But He detected their trickery and said to them, “Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?”

And they said, “Caesar’s”

And He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” – Luke 20:21-25

I picked up a devotional the other day that got me to look at what Jesus said from a totally different perspective. The writer of the devotional asked three simple questions and I was left to extrapolate if Jesus was speaking to people other than the Pharisees? Maybe He was speaking to me too?

Whose image am I made in?

Whose inscription do I bear?

Knowing this what should I do?

So God created man in His own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female He created them. - Genesis 1:27

And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit – Ephesians 1:13