Wed. January 4, 2012

Kayla-


Proverbs 30:7-9, talks about two things that are being asked for from the Lord, from a person who is truely seeking wisdom. 1. Remove from me falsehood and lying. 2. Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed with me the food of that is needful for me. 


We hear so many people preaching the prosperity gospel, and it just isn't true. We shouldn't be praying for riches and happiness. We shouldn't be praying for acceptance of ourselves and for our pockets to be full. We should be praying that God strengthen us in the ways that He calls us to live, and seek that with an honest heart, free from our own desires, so we don't try to distort what God is really calling us to. And we should pray only for God to meet our basic needs to serve Him and His people. We have so much and want so much, and we turn to those places and fill ourselves with all kinds of things (food, money, empty/shallow relationships) to try to satisfy ourselves. But we aren't here for ourselves, we are here ultimately to glorify and serve God, and to further His kingdom, to be His hands and feet, and to Love. We don't need great and glorious things to do that, so we can't use that as an excuse. It's a great task that doesn't require "things" to accomplish. We have to stop searching out material things and excess, and simply pray for our needs to be met, not our wants. Sometimes I feel like all the things I have distract me from the Lord and end up with me relying on myself for provisions, instead of God. But we need to remember that everything, in abundance or in poverty comes from God, and should go back to Him in some shape or form. I am trying to be very conscious that everything I have is God's and He has allowed me to have it to use it in some form to glorify Him. Pray for God to meet your needs, and pray that with the abundance you have that He leads you to somehow glorify Him with that and not the things of this world. 


Blessings.