can't take what I'm given

"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." - Matthew 5:5

Note that their meekness and their status as inheritors are linked. They need no longer seek power to gain what they desire for they are inheritors. All the earth is theirs. Who labors for what they already posses?

"For all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and you are Christ's; and Christ is God's."
- 1 Corinthians 3:21-23

It's like the dime store wisdom the the youngest child intuitively grasps. When the child has a few bucks its like the whole store opens up to him. All things are potentially his and joyous hopes rise in his heart. Yet, when he finally finds and purchases that special something that he believes can fill the scope of his joy and longing, contain it so to speak, the disappointment is almost immediate. He begins to think man this isn't what I should have gotten, I should have gotten x, y, or z. What is happening, whether it is articulated or not, is the sudden realization that he has not simply purchased an object, but has just forfeited a store!

So it is for believers. We settle on an object we treasure and give it our hearts. Yet we too instinctively know that we have not gained an object so much as we have just forfeited the world. Or as Christ put it gained the world yet forfeited our soul . I would say attempted to gain the world. For it is only the meek who actually gain it. Those who have stopped trying to posses and grasp through power.

A hand clasped on one thing is a hand void of all else.