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Spiritual Poverty Is Leading Cause for Contentment Today
Are Your living in spiritual poverty? There is a good chance you are if you are anxious about anything, or are on a continual course for having more to be content.
What has happened to contentment today? It has been replaced by needing newer cars, bigger houses, the latest technology, bigger plates of food, better beer, fancy vacations, more money and many more things that are giving us just a taste of happiness while in the mean time we are denying the creator who created us.
I am reading Billy Graham’s book on the Secret of Happiness and it starts out with the scripture…Mathew 5:3 The meek and lowly are fortunate For the while wide world belongs to them.
He goes on to mention a French Philosopher who once said, “The whole world is on a mad quest for security and happiness.”
So why are so many people not happy? Even people with great wealth have talked about this in the position from they have “everything” money can buy but they are down right miserable.
Why is this?
What are they missing?
C.S Lewis said, “Joy is the serious business of heaven.”
My wife and I are on a week-end get-a-way in the beautiful white mountains and it is a week-end we look forward to every spring. Spring is a time of renewel and the new growth from a long winter season replaces the emptiness of the winter and dark days, with colors of green and new growth.
We spent last night watching a live simulcast of James McDonald and it was fantastic. He addressed the issue that we as Christians and non-Christians all face.
TRIALS….
Not the kind of trials in which we run out of milk in the morning and there is no way to eat our corn pops.
I am talking about the kind of trials that bring a heavy burden upon our shoulders. When a child of our dies, or we lose our job, or we are financially bankrupt…
Serious issues we ALL face. None of us are going to avoid trials in our lives.
What happens when these trials hit is the time for Christians to show the glory of the Lord through how we handle them. Now I have a confession to make to anyone here who reads this. I have struggled in this area mightily. When the walls of my life have come crashing in, I have not handled them with grace. Nor have a thanked God and embraced this as a time of opportunity to shine for God as a child of God.
Typically this is a time I have walked away from God or fallen into a depression…POOR ME…
I am not an anyway minimizing the fact that the trial hurts and brings me to tears or to my knees, that is not what I am saying here.
The difference between Christians and Non-Christians is we have a source of power to tap into that gives us the ability if we choose to embrace the trial and see that this is a chance to show the Glory of God to others in a time of difficulty.
Unfortunately this is not as easy as it sounds. It takes a strong Christian who is NOT spiritually impoverished to be able to withstand the furies of life.
There was no greater example of this then the Father of a young boy in Haiti who is also a minster and runs an orphanage there. If you have not watched this, please do so now
Addressing Spiritual poverty…There is a longing in our hearts that ONLY GOD can fill. This is how we are created. If you continue to chase after what man or women says is what we should chase after, you will just continue to live an unfulfilled life.
To balance this equation, come to the Lord. Contact me and I will talk to you about how to commit to a life that is fulfilling and that gives you true Joy and lasting happiness.
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