TIME FOR MORE

There are times when we have to look at what we have and rejoice at the blessings. There are others when it is necessary to change what we have.

It isn't always easy for some of us. But there are occasions when more is not an option. As with living in a house verses living in an apartment.

Most people would understand that option. They would appreciate the need for more when it applied to such situations.

But there is a difference for example between a house and a mansion in terms of housing. One is need, the other is more for show.

We do need to focus on the difference in the terms of long range priorities. Not in the area of housing, for that is just an example, but in terms of the greater reality.

Which is in terms of all the things required for life. And it is so easy, to be consumed with wanting the latest version of whatever because we decide it is a good thing.

Naturally, we will justify the process. Not by asking God of course, that will never be a choice.

For we know what God will happen to reply if we ask him about that question. It would just be too obvious.

So we just try to avoid that issue. And God in his mercy does a lot of times grant us grace for such situations.

What will flee the situation is our joy. If we mood and desires are not grounded in faith and guiding by his spirit, we can find the reality of happiness we crave totally elude us.

Only we might not actually realize this truth at the time. It will come with that haunting sense of emptiness.

That will nag at us till we see the reality of our choices and recognize how we stray from the Lord's will. However, some will never embrace this fact.

No matter how much God tugs at our hearts, we just keep clutching at our toys and keep thinking it is a good thing. It never really is, but we think it is a good thing.

Thus it the nature of our reality. And how it burdens us by our own choice. To move ahead is to stop letting what we crave be our god.

Then in the silence of our moments of resignation, we learn the lesson intended all along. Some will learn it well, others with bitterness, but better to learn than to not understand and live in blindness.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "Who is going to give me the IOU for my part of the National debt?"