August 11
Delicious food. Beautiful clothing. Exquisite jewelry. Extensive travel. World acclaim. A few of the things that come to mind when we think of blessings we enjoy, or would like to have, include the above. Most of them revolve around having first attained wealth. We equate money with acquiring life’s good things.
Indeed, if we are assessing the advantages of a life by the world’s value system that is absolutely correct. We look upon those who have achieved fame and fortune, power and prestige and we think we see life that abounds in the finest trappings the world can offer. But the Lord has a different standard.
It may be that the person who appears to be low man on life’s totem pole is the one who is actually living the full, rich life we should desire. That blessed life does not require that we be wealthy. Money is not a factor in the attainment of the Lord’s finest gifts. The inestimable treasure God desires us to possess has nothing to do with our spending power.
In Ephesians 1:3 we are told, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ.” Although we may receive the trappings of a successful life, unless we have also claimed the spiritual treasures that are ours through Jesus, we are of all men most miserable, for we are eternal paupers.
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