Money, Money, Money

We are in an economic crisis! It is kind of like, 'the sky is falling, the sky is falling!'. Now I know that some people have sadly lost their jobs and that many more cannot just buy what they want anymore, but I have been thinking that there is an upside to this. Is it just me, or are we living in times where more and more people think that they are owed something? We live in a time when people feel entitled - entitled to do whatever they want, entitled to write whatever they want, entitled to have whatever they want. When did we think this was a good idea?

Is it just me or can anyone else remember when you had to make a choice between buying one expensive item or the other - as opposed to just buying the both now and paying for them later? Did anyone else buy the house they could afford at that time with the understanding that you had a responsibility to pay your loan back? When did we allow the greed of our eyes to dictate the decisions of our brains? As my mom would say when we put more food on our plate than we could actually eat - "Your eyes are bigger than your belly!" What I have learned over time with that one though is that with the right practice and training you can increase your belly :)

I have heard a lot of worry about the economy - and not worry because we cannot put food on our tables - but worry because we cannot put the food we want on our tables. There has been outcry because we cannot go to the restaurants we used to go to, or we actually have to cut our own grass instead of paying the lawn service to do it. When did we get to this sorry state of affairs?

Where has all the trust gone? Where has all the faith gone? Where did God go?

The simple answer I believe is that God didn't go anywhere - but many of us are learning the truth of Matthew 6:24 - You cannot serve both God and money. For some of us we fight against this, we declare that we have never served money - yet we live our lives glued to the markets and the financial reports. We worry about the cost of our houses more than we pray for revival in the nation. We justify our service of money as 'concern' or 'good stewardship' or 'being wise'.

We need to trust in God and His word - when He tells us to consider the birds of the air and how He takes care of them, then don't you think we should? God never said He would meet our wants, He said He would meet our needs.

Just a thought today - not sure where it came from.