Ownership and Organ Donors

The outer layer of our skin is truly the very end of us and our possessions. Here’s what I mean, I, Alex Early, can go no further than my own epidermis. That is the boundary, the property border, if you will of my existence and ownership. I can not say that my home or automobile is truly “mine.” I may have written checks and paid for these things, but they are not going to be mine in 50 years. I will be dead. They will belong to someone else.

My kidneys. I could say that they are mine because they are contained within me. But, even that is a stretch, given that with modern technology and my lack of concern for my kidneys after I am dead, I can be called a “donor.” I donate my kidneys to science.

Still, someone has to come and take them from me.

I don’t own anything is what I am trying to say. Someone can come and steal my car. Someone can cheat me out of five dollars. Someone can even come to my dead body and take organs out of me and I won’t even have a say in it at that point.

This is why Jesus says “store up your treasures where moth and rust can not destroy and where thieves can not break in and steal.” The only thing that I truly have that no one can physically come and take away from me is my faith. No one can lay their hands on a belief.

That is the beauty of it. This is why I should nurture my faith. I should give myself to prayer, fasting, study, and Christian community for the sake of nurturing the only thing that can not be stolen or damaged.