This May, my wife’s brother (Ethan) is graduating from Yale University. He has worked incredibly hard to reach this goal and we are thankful for the opportunities he has been given (and we are, dare I say, proud of him).
Undercutting Yale’s May graduation is the unfolding story of Ms. Jamie Petrone: an administrator in the school of medicine. Though tasked with aiding students in their education, she has used her position to defraud Yale out of $40 million. Just to clarify, that’s a “4” with seven zeroes after it!
This incredible sum wasn’t acquired at once through some grand heist; she methodologically appropriated the funds through the course a decade or more. Little decision by little decision, day by day, Jamie deceived and thieved her way into a fortune. She was hired to serve but chose to steal instead.
Likewise, each Christian was saved to serve, yet we can often use our position for selfish gain.
In the context of our salvation by grace, Paul continues by stating that “we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10, NASB1995). He also warned Christians that they “were called to freedom… only do not turn your freedom
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