Little Space for Possessions, Much Space to Treasure God

A friend of mine once declared, ‘I want to marry a rich man’

‘Even if he is old and has a bad breath?’

‘Yes’, she replied.

‘Even if he already married’, I pressed, 'and have children?'

‘Yes’, she determine.

‘Even if he…’

‘I’ll do whatever it takes!’

...end of conversation.

Oh here we are, living in a world of materialistic. The world that we live in valued someone by how much we earn, how many toys we collect and by how gorgeous our appearances are. Because of this 'attack', worldly pressure, we want easy money and dedicate our brief moment in life to accumulate possessions – image over characters, prestige over holiness and personal independence over dependence on God. Some sold themselves. Some sacrifice their soul to get it. Some are willing to break God’s commandments to own it. The worst of all, in my opinion, sell religious with false & distorted teachings by deceiving weak believers. (I declare my hatred toward prosperity gospel!) And some even determined to do ‘whatever-it-takes’!

Too much space for possessions
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Billy Graham once said, “There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.” For most people, ‘enough’ is always a little bit more than what they now have. To cope with this discontented heart issue of ‘How-much-is-enough’ is to learn to be content. (See Philippians 4:11-12) Content with whatever you have and always stay secure in God’s Providence. Don’t find your sense of significance in possessions, never substitute objects over the attention that you don’t receive, fear not of not having enough – consider the beauty of God by limiting your possessions to create space to treasure Him. God is enough, this is His promise.

“Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, ‘I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.’” (Hebrews 13:5NLT) Keep on working to earn money, yes, for living of course. If you gain handsome incomes, be thankful and don’t forget to give - be generous [Tithe, support for worthy causes etc.]. When God bless you with possessions, don’t worship money, worship God you must. And when you only have what you need, but seldom gets what you want – be cheerful. For now you have limited possessions and have much larger space to treasure God.

Hear this, I mean, read this believingly… If the Lord says ‘I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.’
Do you think God of the Universe is telling a lie?
I don’t think so…

THINK BIG. START SMALL. GO DEEP.