23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Another very familiar chapter covering a range of topics from divorce, children to the rich. This verse follows on one of you comments from the other day about using all the resources God has given us both in skills but also financial.
As I sit here on my reclining couch under a blanket, its -1 one and worse with the wind chill. I am toasty warm with the furnace running, my wifi powered computer in my lap and my cup of coffee that was brewed and ready to go when I left my king bed and descended from the 2nd floor of my shack to read my daily chapter.
so clearly I am rich, as long as I am so fortunate to be in this position I better work hard to make sure I follow God's instruction for my life as I am dangerously close to thinking I have all the resources I need and I got myself to where I am and I can make any decisions I want about how to live my life. Its easy to see why being rich makes its hard to enter his kingdom, i can begin to believe i don't need him. i don't believe that, but do my actions prove that? Am I willing to do whatever he asks me to do, is He really first? seriously really?
God I pray that you will continue to show me what you want me to do in life, and that I will have the faith to follow--an courage.
knut
I read the chapter yesterday......and I saw the same verse again. I almost didn't want to write about it AGAIN!
ReplyDelete2 things are in my head.
1. If God said sell it all and move to Ethiopia.........could I or would I do it? Are the blessings more important to me than him?
2. Every night, while its been so cold here, my kids pray that God helps the people that are cold to be warm....and I keep thinking. "He is expecting us to fulfill those prayers"
sometimes I don't like the flashes of reality this daily read provides.