January 17, 2012
Counting Chickens
Recently a relative of mine had a lottery scratch ticket and because of
the confusing instructions she thought she was a winner. Even knowing that she
might be mistaken didn’t stop her from mentally spending the $27,000 jackpot. It’s
interesting that even with our minds on spiritual things we are not immune to such
dreams. If we suspected we were in line for a windfall maybe we would pay off
the church mortgage, fully fund an orphanage or support a Bible college. We could
convince ourselves that we were giving back to God, but I wonder if
subconsciously there is an appeal to put ourselves in the place of God by
meeting the needs of others. “Look at the
birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your
heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”
(Matt 6:26 NIV)
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Gail;
-----We are sympathetic beings with limited vision. Because we live in a pathetic place our experience is full of situations stirring up emotional relationships with the sorrows and pains of others. Since we neither see God visually nor any evidence of His ending someone’s suffering, it becomes easy to feel like He’s out to lunch and left the problem up to us. I never have trusted feelings to be intelligent. They are just feelings. Sometimes they’re right; sometimes they’re wrong. Sometimes God uses us to fix the problems of others. Sometimes God is using problems to fix others. Dreaming about being the hero with a pocket full of cash is cute. Dreaming about how to know what God needs fixed is educational.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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