THE MESSAGE CONTINUES
As people we feel we are pretty smart, and we are, but only because we are made in the image of God. It is easy to see ourselves being in control because the world tells us that we should be...but that is all really an illusion, and even if we do gain control for any reason it will always be very short lived because of our own imperfections. If we could control all of those around us and the things that we can grab from this world we would still be enslaved to the things around us; and never the other way around.
Paul makes a statement in 1 Corinthians 1:20-21 that really says it all "Where is the wise man? Where is the Scholar? Where is the wise man of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?" I have heard it said " the more that you think you know the less you really do know", and that applies very much to the haughty attitudes that we develop upon achieving anything within this world. We have gone beyond someone with knowledge to now becoming experts in very small areas of a field of study. We have learned more and more about less and less until now we know all there is to know about nothing at all. This is starting to show up in everyday life all around us.
The point I want to make in all of this is to reminds us that we never will be fully grown up in Christ because we just don't have the perfection to take in all that God is trying to teach us...we all will continue to make mistakes. My greatest goal is to simply hold on to my relationship with God until the end. I may develop wisdom even but I must realize that I will never develop control. I will be safe as a small child is safe with his parents but I will never be self sufficient. Every day of my life I learn this lesson a little more. You see it isn't our will that makes us give up on possessing things; it is our heart that stops clinging to them in order to seek out happiness. We have all been lulled into sleep by having the comfort of things around us, and today I can't find many who are willing to leave all that they have behind to follow after God. I can't even say for sure that I am strong enough to trust in God for all that I need in life especially as I allow myself to continue get too comfortable with things. It is very easy to get distracted by things, and lured away from a close relationship with God; and as we struggle with holding onto things we soon find it difficult to even reach out to God. I thank God for at least allowing me to have been taught that money is not the answer, and what it can do to me as a man. I have known the great joy of having it...the great depression of loosing it, and the great void of being without a close relationship with my Father because of it. This world of things is not our friend, its just another way to ensnare our souls into a trap...may you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Paul makes a statement in 1 Corinthians 1:20-21 that really says it all "Where is the wise man? Where is the Scholar? Where is the wise man of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?" I have heard it said " the more that you think you know the less you really do know", and that applies very much to the haughty attitudes that we develop upon achieving anything within this world. We have gone beyond someone with knowledge to now becoming experts in very small areas of a field of study. We have learned more and more about less and less until now we know all there is to know about nothing at all. This is starting to show up in everyday life all around us.
The point I want to make in all of this is to reminds us that we never will be fully grown up in Christ because we just don't have the perfection to take in all that God is trying to teach us...we all will continue to make mistakes. My greatest goal is to simply hold on to my relationship with God until the end. I may develop wisdom even but I must realize that I will never develop control. I will be safe as a small child is safe with his parents but I will never be self sufficient. Every day of my life I learn this lesson a little more. You see it isn't our will that makes us give up on possessing things; it is our heart that stops clinging to them in order to seek out happiness. We have all been lulled into sleep by having the comfort of things around us, and today I can't find many who are willing to leave all that they have behind to follow after God. I can't even say for sure that I am strong enough to trust in God for all that I need in life especially as I allow myself to continue get too comfortable with things. It is very easy to get distracted by things, and lured away from a close relationship with God; and as we struggle with holding onto things we soon find it difficult to even reach out to God. I thank God for at least allowing me to have been taught that money is not the answer, and what it can do to me as a man. I have known the great joy of having it...the great depression of loosing it, and the great void of being without a close relationship with my Father because of it. This world of things is not our friend, its just another way to ensnare our souls into a trap...may you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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