Can Someone Claim You as a Dependent?
Luke 10:40 – 42
Can Someone claim you as a dependent,
As you go along life’s way,
Not for Income Tax purposes,
Nor part of a year, but for every day?
Do others see your dependence
On our God of love
For everything needed –
Your very life given from above?
What about food and clothes
And even transportation,
Family and job,
Not to mention salvation?
Think that you provide it all
Just because you bought it,
From housing to entertainment?
Look at your life and audit.
Knowing from where all things come,
Do you trust as a dependent
In our Lord Jesus Christ
Who is transcendent?
Can Someone claim you as a dependent,
As you go along life’s way,
Not for Income Tax purposes,
But for eternal treasures laid away?
— Charles B. Mayes
Can Someone Claim You as a Dependent? © 2017 by Charles B. Mayes. All Rights Reserved.
I prayerfully hope that God can claim you as a dependent. We can only get through life by depending on Him. How can anyone live without Him? “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.” [Holy Bible – John 6:68b – 69]
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