May 10, 2022
Be Content
My beloved child, I want you to be content and happy with what you have and who you are. The commandment that goes with being content is ‘thou shalt not covet your neighbor’s house.’ (Exodus 20:17) This is the last of the ten commandments of finances. It’s not about things! You can’t take things with you when you die. It’s about knowing Me and being content with who you are. Stop comparing yourself with others and what they have. You are enough! I created you in my image. Be whom I created you to be and allow Me to bless you. Paul said, ‘I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. (Philippians 4:12-13)
Colossians 3:5 says, So, put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with:
1. Sexual immorality
2. Impurity, lust, and evil desires.
3. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.
4. Don’t lust after what others have
5. Don’t have evil desires
6. Don’t be a Greedy – idolater
7. Covetousness is idolatry
Whatever you’re coveting you have made an idol out of it and that goes back to the second commandment. If you covet a neighbor’s new car, not only are you coveting but you are making your neighbor god. Why? You don’t buy a new car when God tells you to, you buy one when your neighbor buys one. Living beyond blessed is living to be a blessing.
One of the most blessed memories I have is one Christmas Eve in a store, God spoke to me and pulled my heartstrings and said, ‘pay for that family’s Christmas!’ He had me meet them at the checkout and pay for everything in their cart! The woman wept the whole time, and I was feeling nothing but unadulterated pure joy!’ That was Christmas for me! I have taught my daughter and grandchildren to be givers. Every Christmas we go to a store, and the assignment is for each family member and me to go separately and discern a family in need then we each buy that family’s Christmas. Do you think my daughter or grandchildren will remember the gifts I have given them when I am gone? No! But they will remember the times we went at Christmas and looked for and discern needy families and blessed them with Christmas!
God blesses good stewards and generous givers!
