When our faith becomes a tool that we employ for our personal gains and glory, it ceases to serve its intended purpose.
When our victories incite arrogance, and someone else’s losses inspire schadenfreude, we need to take care. We are in a precarious predicament. High places are slippery!
When our prayers for God’s blessings upon us, do not include prayers for God’s blessings on others – we need to examine our hearts.
While our economy is rooted in the idea of scarcity – the myth that there aren’t enough resources for everyone – the false notion that if God blesses one, God cannot bless us all – the whole idea that there must be winners and losers- the haves and the have nots – this is not according to who God is! This is capitalism not Christianity.
God is loving and compassionate. God’s grace flows from God’s rich, abundant, and loving character. One’s success and another’s failure are not contingent. In fact true success for one means blessings for another.
We are blessed to be a blessing. How is it that so many of us professed Christians are so out of step with God’s Spirit?
There are at least two possibilities. Either we knew God and turned away, or we never knew God at all!
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Good Morning, I love you all!
ihs,
just adam
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