The greatest err mankind makes is to place themselves first over *GOD*, and, all else! This is the product of egocentricity; selfishness, vanity, and, conviction that our powers are as are HIS! Thus, we are subject to the world BEFORE *GOD*, and, suffer all sorts of afflictions as we journey in this mentality...
Let us take a look at this imperative message from MATTHEW 6:19-24...
19/ "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.
20/ But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.
21/ For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
22/"The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light;
23/ but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.
24/ "No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon...
We HAVE to realize that this life, and, particularly, our life, belongs to *GOD*! HE CREATED ALL, and, EVERYTHING, therefore, all belongs to HIM! This is the beginning of HUMILITY; that acceptance that this life is NOT for the living, but, for our *GOD*, to SERVE HIM, and, to GLORIFY HIM, THROUGH our development of character, and, spirit! We HAVE to realize that it IS ALL in HIS power; everything that occurs, everything that can be; it is all in HIS discretion, in every way! We HAVE to realize that WHAT we can accomplish in this life bears DIRECTLY to our end; our choices, in our free will, ARE what determine our end, come that day of *GOD*!!!
As it says, and, I KNOW FOR SURE, those THINGS which you acquire in life, ARE PERISHABLE, just as are dairy products, and, so forth, PLUS, IF that IS your main objective, you are setting yourself up for disaster, eventually, even IN the course of your life, for *GOD*, WILL teach many of us, some harsh lessons along the way, especially those whom were destined TO receive HIS inheritance! It IS NOT that HE doesn't want us to HAVE things, or, to build up a life, IT IS THAT WE ARE TO PLACE HIM FIRST, and, FOREMOST, in our entire beings, that HIS WILL is done!!!
Surrender, and, submit your lives to the LORD, our *GOD*, in LOVE, humility, and, FAITH! After we learn humility, we should then perfect our FAITH! Let us look at MATTHEW 6:25-34...
25/ "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat (or drink), or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
26/ Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they?
27/ Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?
28/ Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin.
29/ But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them.
30/ If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith?
31/ So do not worry and say, 'What are we to eat?' or 'What are we to drink?' or 'What are we to wear?'
32/ All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
33/ But seek first the kingdom (of God) and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides.
34/ Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.
You see, humbling ourselves before OUR CREATOR, *GOD*, opens up to endless provisions! HE has our backs! HE gives us all we need, and, raises us above the usual! ALL IS HIS TO GIVE, and, IT IS HIS PLEASURE to care for the FAITHFUL! Thus, we must never forget the message of this vital Chapter, MATTHEW 6, as, it SHOWS, CLEARLY, the mindset that a Child of *GOD* should exist within, and, proves that HIS care outlasts all that we, vain humans that we are, could ever hope to obtain, in our short span!!!
Dear FATHER, who art in Heaven, I come to YOU, seeking HUMILITY enough that I am safely embraced by YOUR LOVE, and, all there within! I seek to LEARN how to be humble enough to ALLOW YOU to manage the course of my life, and, the acquisitions therein, and, to guide me, protect me, and, empower me, along the way! I have come to realize that I am nothing more than what YOU have made me to be, a part of YOUR DIVINE plan, and, that without YOU, I am lost to the world, and, it's ways, in which ALL THINGS are temporal, and, defeating! I seek to increase my FAITH, that in any situation, or, condition, I am enabled to LIFT UP TO YOU, and, LET YOU do what is best for me! We are NOT taught well, but, that is no excuse, for YOU have laid at my fingertips, and, before my eyes, and, ears, ALL NECESSARY instructions to LEARNING, and, advancing in YOUR name, that YOU ARE GLORIFIED by my life, and, all of my actions! I am repentant for my ways, for my ignorance, for my vanity, for my lack of total FAITH, and, I ask that you teach me, that I AM empowered, and, enabled to alter my ways from this moment forward, for I LOVE YOU, and, do NOT want to stray further from you! I KNOW the world holds the power to destroy me, mostly, from my own weakness, therefore, humbly, I seek STRENGTH from YOU, for YOU, alone, are the SOURCE of ALL STRENGTH, RIGHTEOUSNESS, and, everlasting acquisition! Thank you, my LORD, and, *GOD*, for hearing my pleas, and, for aiding me, I am ever thankful, and, grateful to YOU, for YOUR LOVING assistance, as I struggle through the hours of each day of this life, and, I WILL try more, and, more, each of these days, to become as worthy of YOUR gifts, as I can feasibly be! PRAISE YOU, my FATHER, who art in Heaven, for ALL YOU are, and, ALL you provide unto us, YOUR Children of FAITH! In CHRIST JESUS' name, AMEN!!!
REV. LWINSOR © 2011
ALL RIGHTS RETAINED/RESERVED IN AUTHORSHIP
*except for BIBLICAL, and/or, other references*
Let us take a look at this imperative message from MATTHEW 6:19-24...
19/ "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.
20/ But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.
21/ For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
22/"The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light;
23/ but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.
24/ "No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon...
We HAVE to realize that this life, and, particularly, our life, belongs to *GOD*! HE CREATED ALL, and, EVERYTHING, therefore, all belongs to HIM! This is the beginning of HUMILITY; that acceptance that this life is NOT for the living, but, for our *GOD*, to SERVE HIM, and, to GLORIFY HIM, THROUGH our development of character, and, spirit! We HAVE to realize that it IS ALL in HIS power; everything that occurs, everything that can be; it is all in HIS discretion, in every way! We HAVE to realize that WHAT we can accomplish in this life bears DIRECTLY to our end; our choices, in our free will, ARE what determine our end, come that day of *GOD*!!!
As it says, and, I KNOW FOR SURE, those THINGS which you acquire in life, ARE PERISHABLE, just as are dairy products, and, so forth, PLUS, IF that IS your main objective, you are setting yourself up for disaster, eventually, even IN the course of your life, for *GOD*, WILL teach many of us, some harsh lessons along the way, especially those whom were destined TO receive HIS inheritance! It IS NOT that HE doesn't want us to HAVE things, or, to build up a life, IT IS THAT WE ARE TO PLACE HIM FIRST, and, FOREMOST, in our entire beings, that HIS WILL is done!!!
Surrender, and, submit your lives to the LORD, our *GOD*, in LOVE, humility, and, FAITH! After we learn humility, we should then perfect our FAITH! Let us look at MATTHEW 6:25-34...
25/ "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat (or drink), or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
26/ Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they?
27/ Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?
28/ Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin.
29/ But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them.
30/ If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith?
31/ So do not worry and say, 'What are we to eat?' or 'What are we to drink?' or 'What are we to wear?'
32/ All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
33/ But seek first the kingdom (of God) and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides.
34/ Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.
You see, humbling ourselves before OUR CREATOR, *GOD*, opens up to endless provisions! HE has our backs! HE gives us all we need, and, raises us above the usual! ALL IS HIS TO GIVE, and, IT IS HIS PLEASURE to care for the FAITHFUL! Thus, we must never forget the message of this vital Chapter, MATTHEW 6, as, it SHOWS, CLEARLY, the mindset that a Child of *GOD* should exist within, and, proves that HIS care outlasts all that we, vain humans that we are, could ever hope to obtain, in our short span!!!
Dear FATHER, who art in Heaven, I come to YOU, seeking HUMILITY enough that I am safely embraced by YOUR LOVE, and, all there within! I seek to LEARN how to be humble enough to ALLOW YOU to manage the course of my life, and, the acquisitions therein, and, to guide me, protect me, and, empower me, along the way! I have come to realize that I am nothing more than what YOU have made me to be, a part of YOUR DIVINE plan, and, that without YOU, I am lost to the world, and, it's ways, in which ALL THINGS are temporal, and, defeating! I seek to increase my FAITH, that in any situation, or, condition, I am enabled to LIFT UP TO YOU, and, LET YOU do what is best for me! We are NOT taught well, but, that is no excuse, for YOU have laid at my fingertips, and, before my eyes, and, ears, ALL NECESSARY instructions to LEARNING, and, advancing in YOUR name, that YOU ARE GLORIFIED by my life, and, all of my actions! I am repentant for my ways, for my ignorance, for my vanity, for my lack of total FAITH, and, I ask that you teach me, that I AM empowered, and, enabled to alter my ways from this moment forward, for I LOVE YOU, and, do NOT want to stray further from you! I KNOW the world holds the power to destroy me, mostly, from my own weakness, therefore, humbly, I seek STRENGTH from YOU, for YOU, alone, are the SOURCE of ALL STRENGTH, RIGHTEOUSNESS, and, everlasting acquisition! Thank you, my LORD, and, *GOD*, for hearing my pleas, and, for aiding me, I am ever thankful, and, grateful to YOU, for YOUR LOVING assistance, as I struggle through the hours of each day of this life, and, I WILL try more, and, more, each of these days, to become as worthy of YOUR gifts, as I can feasibly be! PRAISE YOU, my FATHER, who art in Heaven, for ALL YOU are, and, ALL you provide unto us, YOUR Children of FAITH! In CHRIST JESUS' name, AMEN!!!
REV. LWINSOR © 2011
ALL RIGHTS RETAINED/RESERVED IN AUTHORSHIP
*except for BIBLICAL, and/or, other references*
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