Thursday’s Blog – Two thoughts or Three!

Thursday’s Blog – Two thoughts or Three!

Proverbs 13:7 – There is one who makes himself rich, but has nothing; and one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

Bible Challenges and Comments

Poverty and Prosperity; by human definition these two words divide the rich and the poor to the point of “shame on you Mr. Poor and praise to you Mr. Rich”. Yet and have you noticed, by biblical definition the reverse is true. “Praise to you Mr. Poor and shame on you Mr. Rich”. This does not mean that it is bad or good to be either and I sense that both are of equal value to the LORD God; a parity. God loves all people; no exception.

Proverbs 22:2 – The rich and the poor have this in common. The LORD is the maker of them all. Not only does God form the rich and the poor in the womb – (Psalm 139:13-16 – For You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book, they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them) but He also has a plan and purpose for each of us. 

What is God’s Plan and Purpose for you and me? In our world today we have become distracted from God and have you noticed; many people have plans about life, but they have no purpose for living. The apostle James puts this thought in perspective with these words. James 4:1-4 – Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war (battle). Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures, adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity (warring) with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Without purpose for living (brothers and sisters) we as believers (the church) appear to be moving toward richness in worldliness and poor in the Spirit. As God moves His Church toward the translation (rapture) 1 Corinthians 15:50-52 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, let us challenge one another to the good work of becoming rich the Spirit and poor in worldliness.