This morning Kai was hungry, which seems to be a habit of hers in the mornings.  My wife opened the cabinets to find some nutritious breakfast when my sweet, little 2 year old spotted the Pop-tarts.

“I want a Pop-tart,” no surprise there.

“Do you want a Pop-tart or a million dollars?” I came back.

She gave me this classic what-are-you-dumb? look. “I want a Pop-tart, Daddy. Not dollars.”

Now, she did this for one of three reasons:

1) In her weak, hunger-induced frame of mind, she was unable to make a rational decision.

2) She sees that Daddy drives an 2002 Dodge Neon and knows he’s not good for any currency bigger than a Lincoln… the coin version.

3) If I a really had a million dollars, she has absolutely no concept of what a million dollars is.

Neither do I really.  And there is my point.

We serve a God who has a life for us way beyond what we currently know. But we are content with Pop-tarts, Facebook, internetflicks, and emotionally disturbed birds who hate green pigs. (All personal favorites btw) There are so many things that eat up our time that are perfectly meaningless.  Our Lord says, “Here’s a million dollars.”  He wants to take us on an adventure, not let us merely exist.  In fact the scripture says that God “is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” (Eph 3:20, NIV)

Adventure is everywhere.  We encounter people everyday that we simply ignore. We play on computers when we could pick up the phone. We watch the flat screen while a youth center has a meeting up the street.

Today you will have some million dollar opportunities.  What will it be? Dollars or Pop-tarts?