Due course for all man-kind until God returns!

"Now this is what the Lord Almighty says. "Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it."" -Haggai 1:5-6

 In today's world, we are taught:

-"You must have a high paying job to be successful!"
- "More is better!"
 -"The bigger the home the happier you will be!"
 - "The more expensive your toys are the better your life will be!"

 Yet it seems that all of these things still leave us empty. We still feel unsatisfied and wanting more, Why?

 It's not a sin to have the most of all that life can offer. The bigger home, nicer cars, or more toys. But they can rule our lives and take the place of God in our hearts; which is a sin!

When we live to work so that we can provide for our every want, we miss out on so much more. God didn't make us to live to work, He made us to work to live. When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden, God cursed man by making them work hard to earn a way of life. Food and money, etc...(Genesis 3:17-19) This is the due course for all man-kind until God returns. BUT, we have to keep God in His rightful place in our hearts.

 The harder we work for ourselves the less we end up having because we get so caught up in making our physical lives happy that we ignore our spiritual lives. Our lives can be changed upside down when we put every ounce of our energy into our physical lives. Marriages crumble, kids loose respect for their parents, relationships fall apart. In the end we find ourselves asking, "Was all of this worth it?" More than likely the answer is always, "No!"

 God wants us to put Him first in our lives. We need to lean on Him to provide for our deepest needs. Every once in a while we need to take a self-survey and ask ourselves, "Do we really need all the toys? The bigger home? the nicer cars?" No, not usually the case. What we need most of all is to have God in our hearts, a husband or wife to love, children to pass our legacy on too, and loving people in our lives. When we put God in any other place in our hearts, all of our efforts elsewhere are futile, and our material possessions will never satisfy us. God's blessings to us will be withheld and we will continue to struggle filling the gaps in our hearts with more stuff and empty relationships.

 Father,

Your loving-kindness is so mind blowing to me. You always have our best interest in mind. We thank you God for showing us what is most important. Help us to take a step back and look at what is necessary and what isn't in our lives, help us to have the courage and strength to say no to ourselves. "No! I don't need that, I need God more!" Show us how to place our trust in You and faith to know that You will always provide for us.

 In Jesus name I pra,y

Amen