You remember the Lord teaching us to be content as in I Timothy 6:6 “But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world and we can take nothing out of it.” That’s what He taught us as the ultimate living servant example in the flesh, whereas our world and culture literally demands we not be content, to always lust after something extra. Gold, silver and stuff is going to be the damnation of many souls. Do you hear me? Our Father said, be content, not to LUST after more.
Therefore, we need to be trained as His servant ambassadors. You know what gets me, for I can see it on some of you, you are meant to have access to considerable resources. You are! But those resources must never lead your heart away from His model of servanthood. Never! If they do change you, they’re no good for you.
So, let me give you this litmus test. If having, or not having resources, alters your mood or perspective of generosity, then it has power over you, and you dare not accept its influence. In fact, you best refuse its association immediately! However that being said, the day your resources increase appreciably, and they do not change your mood or perspective of generosity, that’s the day you understand the additional blessings from God are only gifts from God to be dispensed as His kingdom’s tools. And while living in our “crucibles or furnaces of life” with that servant perspective, the Lord takes delight in loaning or facilitating through us whatever tools we need to complete His kingdom work.
Be warned however, if such a sudden abundance of resources causes you excitement, such that a “shopping fit drool comes out of your mouth,” you can forget it. The Lord is not going to give you anything that will increase the lust of your flesh. He will not.
Be content. Don’t look around your place and complain about what you’re missing. Stop doing that. That’s exactly what Satan wants you to do, because in so doing, you’re cursing God’s current provision for you. If you live in a shack with a leaky roof, I’m telling you right now, be thankful. Be thankful because that is your Father’s provision. For the moment, be thankful. Don’t curse his provision.
Understand whoever is thankful for God’s provision will have God’s adequate provision. Whoever rejects it, will go through a season, just like the Children of Israel did, frequently needing correction. They went through seasons where they had nothing; where everything was stripped away. Don’t put yourselves through that pain! That means right now, look around and be thankful for what you have and realize, truth be told, you really don’t even have to have what you do have! Learn to be content with what you have today. In other words, being content is simply to be thankful.
BOTTOM LINE: Don’t EVER feed the lust of your flesh.
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