Teacher -
We come to You with a question about how to live in this world.
Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?
Your answer amazes us.
Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.
Your answer invites us to wonder what belongs to God.
Does not everything belong to You - no matter whose head and title is on our coin?
How, then, shall we live?
Trusting that all is Yours, may we treat all things as such, and may we rest in the promise that You alone are Lord.
Amen.