May the mumbling commence!
Beware of good times.
Beware that you begin to depend on your own devices. It is a good way to be shattered upon the
hard rocks of life. Read a couple of
verses from Psalm Thirty:
When I was prosperous I said,
"Nothing can stop me now!"
Your favor, O Lord, made me as secure as a mountain.
Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered. (Verses 6-7)
Many people are terrified of the valleys of life – and for
good reason. But, it is NOT the case
with good times. It is all too easy to
begin to depend upon our own resources and forget God.
Then, we relearn the old saying, “Don’t know what you got
till it’s gone.”
It is only the favor of the Lord that makes us secure…
not or money or possessions or knowledge.
Only the Lord makes secure. May
we remember that lesson when things are going good for us.
That is the kind of wisdom that the Apostle Paul prays
for the Colossian church. Read from
Colossians chapter one:
So we have continued praying for you ever
since we first heard about you. We ask God to
give you a complete understanding
of what he wants to do in your lives, and we ask him to make you wise with spiritual wisdom. Then the way
you live will always honor and please
the Lord, and you will continually
do good, kind things for others. All the while, you will learn to know God better and better.
We also pray that you will be strengthened
with his glorious power so that you will have all the patience and endurance
you need. May you be filled with joy, always thanking the Father, who has enabled you to share the inheritance that belongs to God's holy people, who live
in the light. For he has rescued us from
the one who rules in the kingdom of darkness, and he has brought us into the
Kingdom of his dear Son. God has
purchased our freedom with his blood and has forgiven all our sins.
(Verses 9-14)
In that security in the Lord, we receive complete
understanding and spiritual wisdom… over time.
That waiting… and waiting well is where patience and endurance need to
come in. Allow the joy of the Lord to be
your strength.
And thank the Father.
God has opened a way for our freedom.
Now that is prosperity and good fortune.
May we not misuse it!
Enough mumbling for now…
Peace Out
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