Often times I find myself trying to self-gratify by the things I buy. It can be anything... a watch, food, clothes, an ink pen. I think I hope to comfort myself with some kind of possession but all attempts are futile. What is worst about this exercise is that gratification happens but momentarily before I return to my state of discomfort and insecurity.
Beth Moore discusses in the book how money or financial stability will not buy your security. That is a word for me. Why? Because I often try to find my security in that card swipe or every online purchase. I try in hopes that that small gratification will some kind of way be magnified in me and it never happens. I gamble with this concept like the lottery thinking maybe this will be the time I find my security. And yet what happens is that I find myself more insecure singing the perpetual song, "I'm broke, I'm broke, I'm broke!". As a college student this is a song that is normal for me to sing anyway but at this pace of finding security in my spending this song echos into my future threatens my future generations.
A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.
(Proverbs 13:22)
The Word of God is saying something to me right there! Stop spending and return to God what is His. Let Him be my accountant and my security. This is a legit struggle for me... really. So pray for me, I am praying for you.
Beth writes a great concept that we should all prayerfully adopt: the more selfish we are, the more miserable we become. The greedier we are the less secure we feel and the more we hoard things the more we should give things away. That is a God principle and if we pay attention enough we will recognize its true. Sad to say--it is fact for me. Our call is to a dying world and our security to them is the only way we can point it to the light of Christ so that He can give hope, healing, restoration, change, future-- eternity.
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