We sometimes criticize other people, thinking that
what they are doing and who they are is weird; but the truth is we are the ones
that are weird. We see people disabled people preaching and we say "hmm,
that is weird" but in the true sense, we are the
ones that are weird. is like we get into this world where we think " wow, the way they live is so strange", but it is the way we live that is strange. When you throw $1 bill at people no matter how beneficial that thing is, they try to dodge it, so that it does not hit them, no one is reaching for it. Majority of the world will look at it and think that is crazy; "I can’t believe he just did that". But maybe if you throw a $100 bill, someone will reach for it, because that is like a day's wage. Is it weird that you make $4000 a month, 100 times the amount an average person makes on the street? Or is it not weirder when you see people making a 100 times of what you make and you still hear them complain of money? Do you know how the rest of the world looks at you? You don’t like to think of yourself as rich, but you are so rich; and yet some of us will call ourselves broke? You are stressed out about money, you are stressed out about 30 years from now; but you are rich and that puts you at a very high disadvantage when not properly handled. We have made ourselves the toughest people to reach in the planet; Luke 18: 26-27. It is so hard when you are rich and you think your riches are worth something compared to the heavenly treasure you stand to acquire.
The kingdom of heaven is
like a man who finds a treasure in the field, and decides to sell all his
properties so that he can acquire that field. He does not have to think to know
if it is worth it. The more you have, the less you are inclined to believe you
are needy. Money if not properly handled gives us these false sense of security
which does not make us believe that our security is in God. God does not like a
lukewarm church. Some of us do not rely on God for our daily bread because we
feel we have all we need now and we have our retirement already set up. We do
not know that we are the needy ones; we are starved and emaciated because we
are not on fire for God. Some of us that are lukewarm know we are lukewarm and
have decided to remain that way. We want a bit of God, we feel we have enough
of God in my life, we are lukewarm, we love it and we hate for anyone to
challenge us to be on fire for God. As the saying goes for a repentant
Christian "I was once blind but now I see"; but for a lukewarm
Christian, it is as good as saying “I was once blind, but now am blind”,
because there is no difference. God wants people who long after him and not
people who don’t know what they want.ones that are weird. is like we get into this world where we think " wow, the way they live is so strange", but it is the way we live that is strange. When you throw $1 bill at people no matter how beneficial that thing is, they try to dodge it, so that it does not hit them, no one is reaching for it. Majority of the world will look at it and think that is crazy; "I can’t believe he just did that". But maybe if you throw a $100 bill, someone will reach for it, because that is like a day's wage. Is it weird that you make $4000 a month, 100 times the amount an average person makes on the street? Or is it not weirder when you see people making a 100 times of what you make and you still hear them complain of money? Do you know how the rest of the world looks at you? You don’t like to think of yourself as rich, but you are so rich; and yet some of us will call ourselves broke? You are stressed out about money, you are stressed out about 30 years from now; but you are rich and that puts you at a very high disadvantage when not properly handled. We have made ourselves the toughest people to reach in the planet; Luke 18: 26-27. It is so hard when you are rich and you think your riches are worth something compared to the heavenly treasure you stand to acquire.
Jesus said, if we overcome, we will be on the throne
with him, a throne where all the angels bow and reverence; you will dine with him,
true riches, clothing in white robes and mansions, eternal life, joy, peace, no
pain, no suffering, no sweat and name it all. So you can imagine how
disappointed God feels when we actually choose the riches in this small and
temporary world to all that. If the heaven is the throne of God, throne of
power and majesty, and the earth where we are is just his foot stool, have you
taken time to imagine how heaven will be like?
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