Leaving Your Financial Wilderness

Leaving Your Financial Wilderness ~


OneÆs instinct to survive goes against giving all, as if we
would lose all thatÆs left. And, whatever we think we possess is
just a figment of our imagination. Yet, we cling to it for dear
life.

Consider conscious choices youÆve made. Didn't you think
they were yours? Truth is, every thought keeping us separate
from God is based upon a lie. Logic, not given us by the Spirit,
is based upon misplaced faith. Apart from God, we're not even in
our right minds. They aren't our thoughts at all, but SatanÆs
planting!

Giving all isn't throwing everything out the window. It
isn't about being good enough. ItÆs a choice of the heart to
choose God and His direction in all things.

Perhaps you want a new sofa, but would have to charge it.
So, you seek God, who reminds of scripture to not owe any man.

Do you kick and scream about your wants? Or, have you, yet,
been burnt enough that, if God isn't in it, you already know you
don't want it?

Choose God. Soon, someone may be giving away their sofa.
Just think of the financial bondage youÆll have averted!

Perhaps you want a special blouse. But, there is greater
need to pay bills. God knows your furnace will be going out next
week and you'll otherwise come up short. Will you argue? Or,
are you done being on the losing end?

It's the end of the month and your glasses break. You can't
do without them. So, you place your faith in your charge card.
Right?

Is there no God? Did you even stop to ask His way? Perhaps
new lenses would fit in your old pair of glasses. But, you never
thought of that! Well, it could be because you didn't ask.

Ok, so that option doesnÆt suite you. Maybe someone, long
forgotten, will return money owed to you. Just donÆt short
change God.

These are only some of the steps of faith we may take,
knowing that only God knows the way out of our financial
wilderness. And, in such, He helps us to become stronger
with each step we take - growth, later, proving to have been
beneficial to our calling.

Eventually, we come to realize God cares about everything we
care about and He is trustworthy to do the most loving thing
possible. And, once we finally realize it all belongs to Him, we
discover He owns it all!


® 2003 by Joyce C. Lock

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About the Author:

Joyce C. Lock founded and maintains the email ministries
"Heavenly Inspirations"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HeavenlyInspirations/ and
"Share a Smile" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smilesharing/ .
She also has a published e-book, "The Difference",
which can be purchased here:
http://www.theeaglesgarden.com/