My help comes from the
LORD, who made heaven and earth. – Ps 121:2
Have you ever thought about why people like
Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos keep amassing billions each year while millions are
entering into poverty at the same time? Have you looked at Melania Trump’s
3-million-dollar 25-carat-diamond ring and thought of how many kids that can
feed? Or, bringing it closer to home, do you have a close relative with 4 cars
and you’re outraged they’ve never thought of giving you one?
While we cannot condone or excuse
stinginess and parsimony among some of the rich, we cannot legitimately fault
them for not giving to us. Because, in the strictest sense of the word, it is their wealth, not yours.
Your praying to God to touch the
heart of that superrich relative of yours may be legitimate, but at the least
you should admit that they can decide not to heed to God’s yielding since they
aren’t holding your property.
Using the car as an example, know that you have
your own car that God has provided
for you, just as He has bountifully provided for them! It’d more expedient,
therefore, if you spent those spiritual energies of yours in the prayer room
asking for your own car instead of asking God to tell others to give you their
own.
While the car God has provided for you is
obviously not in heaven, (it’s down here on Earth somewhere), you cannot insist
it’s in your relative’s garage.
When we have this understanding, we’ll not walk
around with an entitlement mentality, expecting people around us to bless us.
We’ll live with our eyes constantly fixed up beyond the hills… from whence our help
comes.
AMEN.
More Blessings await
you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.
GREG ELKAN
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