Job 1:21 (LSB) 21 And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh.”
Sometimes we need a gentle reminder to help us put things in life into proper perspective.
The world we live in has a way of getting into our heads, playing games with our minds and our thinking.
And if we are not careful, we will fall into the mindset that tells us we must forfeit our lives in search of stuff; wealth and material things that are more than we need. And we work our lives away in that pursuit.
But as we mature, and we gain wisdom and understanding, we begin to see things in a different light. We begin to recognize the spinning of our wheels in pursuit of tangible things for what it is; chasing after the wind.
Yes, God wants to bless us. He wants us to have the necessities of life.
But a life spent with the primary goal of amassing wealth simply for the sake of having wealth is not what we are instructed to do.
Solomon had more wealth and material possessions than anyone before or after him.
And what did he say in the latter years of his life? It is all vanity and chasing after the wind.
This should be an eye-opener for us. We are no different than Solomon.
We are born, we live, and we die. We come into the world naked and empty-handed. We leave the same way; naked and empty-handed.
This would appear to be our lot as human beings.
But our relationship with Christ sets us apart from the world.
We have hope, not in the things of this world, but in Christ and the redemption He offers us through His shed blood.
Let us determine in our hearts to pursue Him relentlessly, placing Him and our relationship with Him high above all else in this life.
And as we do this, the other pieces of our lives will fall into place by God’s grace and His faithfulness.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443
401-439-3780
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