“Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” It wasn’t the response the Pharisees expected. Their question to Jesus had to do with whether it was lawful to pay the census tax to the Romans. Jesus steers away from their trap and takes them to another level.
Jesus made them, and makes us, think about what and who belongs to God. We belong to God because we are created by God in God’s own image and likeness. We belong to God because we are baptized and confirmed into the people of God. And everything we have can be traced to God, the Source. The posture of a faithful follower of Christ is to see everything as gift from God.
What does it mean for you to belong to God? How do you show that everything you have in the end belongs to God?