Greed is not a rich or poor issue, but a human issue.
“There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt.” Ecclesiastes 5:13
Do not hoard your love, time, knowledge, resources, or your God.
I love how the chrysanthemums climb their neighbors.
“He who gives to the poor will not lack, But he who hides his eyes will have many curses.” Proverbs 28:27
I have to think that this is not only about money, but that it also includes the poor of hope and the lonely. So even if I do not have the resources to help much financially, I do have the knowledge and compassion of the infinite love of Jesus. So I must do the harder thing, and be a friend.
Well it’s the 10th of November and I don’t know if I am going to post about my thankfulness journey again today. For the Lord has been taking me deep with fruitful results, therefore the editing for public consumption is not only difficult, but is reducing the results to nonsense, unless I naval gaze and let the lint spill out.
However, I have been reading a book that has grown on me the further along I get. I just had to get over the initial annoyance of it being written as a “woman’s book” rather than just as a good book.
This is a pet peeve of mine. Why do women do this, men don’t. Women get all chatty, and personal, like I wouldn’t enjoy their book unless I knew their favorite color, or whether they hate those lonely friendless women out there who like to go all out for others.
Well then again, here I am being all chatty and catty regarding her writing style, so maybe I’ll just shut up now and type some comforting and humbling excerpts.
The book is called None Like Him by Jen Wilkin
Our God is a God of no needs.
God is in fact: a self-contained source of perpetual and perfect sustenance.
He created everything, nothing He created could possibly be needful to Him for His existence. If it were, then like Him it would have always existed. Our God is self-sufficient, needed by all, needful of nothing.
PraiseGod that His plans do not rely on my faithfulness, His joy doesn’t hinge on my good behavior, His glory doesn’t depend on my performance. I stumble along chasing my own agendas and plotting my own ends, occasionally offering Him the reverence He is perpetually due. He is unruffled and unharmed by my inconsistency. He is pleased to be glorified either through me or in spite of me, but He does not need me in the least. And yet He loves me, deeply eternally, for no other reason than “according to the good pleasure of His will (Eph.1:3-6).
“It is not our job to be original, but to worship the Origin of All Things.”
~Jen Wilkins
“Furthermore, we are free to rely on God when our hope for a relationship or situation has dwindled to nothing. Remember, our Creator-God specializes in bringing something from nothing.
We cannot create hope where there is hopelessness, or love where there is lovelessness. We cannot create repentance where there is unrepentance, but we can cry out to the God who can.
In the first great act of creation, God miraculously rendered something from nothing. And He rejoices to continue that work in human hearts.
God may restore a broken relationship or circumstance, or He may simply restore hope to you in their midst. Not everything will be made new in this lifetime, but His promise to grow us in the fruit of the Spirit means we can know abundant life whether relationships and circumstances heal or not.”
He has given me the desire to know, the ability to marvel, and to experience Him.
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“Thou hast given me understanding to compass the earth, measure the sun, moon, stars, universe, but above all to know Thee, the only true God. I marvel that the finite can know the infinite, here a little, afterwards in full-orbed truth; Now I know but a small portion of what I shall know, here in part, there in perfection, here a glimpse, there a glory. To enjoy Thee is life eternal, and to enjoy is to know. Keep me in the freedom of experiencing Thy salvation continually.”
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