“But as for me my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked”- Psalm 73: 2-3 (NIV).
If you talk of reaping and amassing wealth there is no way believers in Christ can compare theirs to the people of the world. Talk of having houses and land and you find many non-believers washed with aplenty.
So, should believers also crave what they have! After all in our prayers we do also ask to be blessed- just as we see them apparently enjoying.
Of course God can never be restrained to choose whom to bless as He wills every single day. However the mistake would be to look at those who have amassed riches as the standard of blessings.
Far from it there are many multiple blessings in the lives of believers. Many have peace in their lives and enjoy the pleasure of family life which non-believers do not know of. The believers have hope for eternal life in Christ while the tycoons of this world all their hope and trust is in accumulating material things, which drive them 24/7.
Yet in the end all that is pursuing vanity for as the Scriptures say, “our days on earth are like grass; like wild flowers, we bloom and die” (Psalm 103:15, NLT).
Put your trust ever in the Lord Christ Jesus and enjoy His many blessings in your life.
Prayer for today: Lord Father God in heaven, today I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, that I enjoy the countless blessings in my life without looking at others whose ways I know not!
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19/04/2024 - 20/04/2024 All day“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland” ( Isaiah 43:19).
Just before fire was unleashed down on Sodom and Gommorah, Lot was told to pack up with his wife and two daughters and leave their homestead. Now, once out of danger, “But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt” ( Gen 19:26). Perhaps here we might pause and ask why she was bothered to look back.
Of course it could have been that old “curiosity killed a cat” mistake! Yet, it could also have been Lot’s wife was not sure where she was going and longed for her old life back. This is a common error. There was nothing stirring to look back. Just before Lot’s neighbors had attacked his house eager to rape his visitors. “They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them” ( vv 5). Was there anything worth looking back to!
The case of Lot’s wife could be anyone else’s experience. The Lord has plucked you out of some mess. You have been delivered to a new life. Yet, somehow you decide to look back, as though there was anything good and worth longing for. Sometimes it is a bitter past you have been delivered from. Other than rejoice in your new blessings you keep being drawn back!
A wise caution goes, “As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly” ( Proverbs 26:11). If the Lord has just led you out of a certain mess why look back like it was much better! Instead look ahead, for “he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past” ( vv 17- 18).
Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, I thank you for delivering me from the darkness of the past and I look forward to a bright new future in you, this I pray in Jesus’ name!
