Snapshots
Biblical Truth
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ME-ME-ME And Mine
BIBLE REFERENCE:
Luke 6:38 (NIV) “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Luke 9:23 (NIV) “Then he said to them all: ‘If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.’”
Luke 12:15 (NIV) “Then he said to them, ‘Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.’”
1 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV) “When I was a child, I talked like a child; I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. “
Ephesians 5:5 (NIV) “For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person – such a man is an idolater – has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.”
Philippians 4:11-13 (NIV) “I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.”
James 4:1-3 (NIV) “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”
APPLICATION:
Believe it or not life really is not all about you or me (despite what the TV commercials tell us!). Life really is about God, it’s about others, and it’s about you and me sharing with others who are in need.
The Bible teaches us that as believers, as followers of Christ, we become new creatures with new attitudes, new ambitions, new thoughts, new desires and a new direction in life. No longer are we obsessed with me, me, me, and mine because now we have a greater calling and purpose in life, to follow Christ and share his love and compassion with others.
The Bible equates greed with idolatry, something God hates. The Bible tells us that no greedy person will inherit God’s kingdom (Ephesians 5:5). This sounds a bit harsh but this is what the Scriptures teach - whether or not we agree. God wants us to grow up in our thinking, to start thinking more about others and get our focus outward rather than inward.
As I grow older, it has become harder and harder for me to justify more and more stuff for myself, when there are so many needy people living in the world. God blesses us to bless others.
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A PRAYER:
“God help me to become less focused on myself and my own personal desires and needs and more focused on others around me who are in real need.”
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