Good Morning Sunday...
Father Thank You for this NEW DAY. Thank You for each NEW BREATH You Give Us. We ask You for DISCERNMENT with the things we may not be “seeing,” so that we may grow closer to You. Help us to have COMPLETE LIVES showing Your Glory. We ask these things IN YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST’s Name. Amein!
We all want to be happy, right? Of course, but what makes us happy? It may sound strange but many people have trouble placing exactly what makes them happy. Stranger than that is the fact that some people think certain things make their lives happier, when in fact those very things bring misery, heartbreak, absentmindedness, resent, and strife. One of those very things?... Money.
Think about this:
What amount of money could you attain that will bring you happiness? Would millions make you happy, or are you content with just a raise at work?
While it may be hard to believe, no amount of money can bring contentment, peace, love, or happiness. The natural order that Our Father Has Created just doesn’t work that way.
I have been blessed to travel all over and one thing that always struck me was this: The richest (monetarily) people I ever met were also the most miserable people I ever met. Not coincidentally, the most joyful, happy, and peaceful people I ever met were the poorest. That’s right. The millionaires, and even billionaires, I met while working in “the biz” were some of the most unhealthy, spiteful, vindictive, and down right evil people I ever met, while the people I met on mission trips with no roofs on their house were the happiest. The difference? The rich acted as their own gods, having enough money to convince themselves of anything, while the poor had The Fullness of The One True and Living God residing with them. The rich took care of their own problems, or so they thought, with a check, while the poor completely depended on God Our Father in Faith and Love.
One of the richest men who ever lived was once asked: “How many millions of dollars would it take for you to be satisfied?” His reply: “The next one.” There may be no more clear example of how a rich and godless person’s brain works. Money takes preeminence over all else and what are they left with? Some cotton pieces of paper that really aren’t worth the paper they are printed on. Greed and the pursuit of money creates an unsatisfied hunger inside of us, and it can never be satisfied. The example above is clear evidence. Just do a search for former lottery winners and take a look at how many of them are “happy”... almost none. The stories I have read and seen end with most of them saying: “Winning the lottery is the worst thing that ever happened to me.” They end up penny-less, with no friends, and the weight of the world on their shoulders.
Yeshua, Jesus Christ, Our Savior told us that we cannot serve money, or mammon, and God Our Father. That may be a tough pill to swallow, but it is The Truth. If it is a tough pill to swallow, you may want to say a prayer and ask Our Father to show you The Truth.
Maybe some will ask: “Can’t we serve both and be fine?” The answer is no. Our Savior teaches us that if we decide to choose money over Him, we will end up slaves to not only our money, but our possessions as well. Serving one ends in “spinning our wheels” and serving The ONE ends in Freedom, Fulfillment, and Life.
May we all choose The One Who Holds Eternal Life. May we all choose The One Who Can Fully Meet Our Needs. And, May we all choose The One Who Can Give Us Riches Far Beyond What We Can Possess Or Even Imagine. May We All Choose The God Of All Creation and His Son The Savior Of The Whole World. Father, we ask this in The Name of Your Most Precious Gift To All Mankind, Your Son and Our Savior, Yeshua, Jesus Christ. Amen!!!
The Richness of Christ, The Word of God:
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?”
Matthew 6:22-27
“Remember Lot’s wife.”
Luke 17:32
“Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has understanding, But a rod is for the back of him who is devoid of understanding. Wise people store up knowledge, But the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. The rich man’s wealth is his strong city; The destruction of the poor is their poverty. The labor of the righteous leads to life, The wages of the wicked to sin. He who keeps instruction is in the way of life, But he who refuses correction goes astray.”
Proverbs 10:13-17
“The rich man is wise in his own eyes, But the poor who has understanding searches him out.”
Proverbs 28:11
“Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!” And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, “Who then can be saved?” But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.” Then Peter began to say to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You.” So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
Mark 10:23-31
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Matthew 6:19-21
“But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!”
Acts 8:20
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Thank You and Yahweh Yeshua Ha'Mashiach, God Our Father and His Son, Bless You!
