11 March 2009

Transcend: Riches do not profit in the day of wrath

It is 6 weeks now that i have not been working. Others who have family to support, or who did not choose to resign from their job are facing a tougher battle than me. It has been a wild and wondrous walk with the Lord - waiting on Him to provide a job and yet still running back and forth like a chicken without a head trying to make it happen the best that i can in the flesh. It seems now that i'm missing out on something big. While the money is dwindling weekly, i don't want that to be the focus - and it too often is. I'm hoping that God will be glorified in transcending me into someone who doesn't care about controlling money and where its next source will come from.

This morning i woke up with a puffy eye and it hurts. It reminds me of the verse that says "Get the plank out of your own eye before trying to remove the speck out of your neighbours" I wonder if the speck is the source of money and where it will come next and this plank in my eye is the lack of trust, a deep sense of obligation of needing to rely on myself, or even worse, a desire for money and comfort high above a desire for the God and Father that brought me out of death into life. This verse from Proverbs popped up in my reading this morning:

"Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death"

Lord, may Your will be done in our lives today. Remind us Lord what you have brought us from and what we are selling ourselves short of. Teach us God about following you and being a blessing by following in faith without sight. We need you, I need you now Lord, Amen.

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