Revelation 3:17-18
17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Today, I realized that I had lost almost every major hope in every area of my life: love, family, career, finance, purity, honor, ministry, and health.
I am still in one piece. Thank God for my parents, because I am still jobless and still rely on my parents.
If I know a way to get out of this, I already did. And I think I did, because I was finally given the solution. Read my previous journal entries if you want to know more. Right now, I am just expectantly waiting for the manifestation of God’s promised prosperity.
I really believe that it was God who has reduced me to this, or at least for years He has allowed this to happen, in spite of my prayers and cries. Because of my reduction to obscurity, I realized the true need to rely fully on God, and that I am nothing without Him.
Many people have the same problems too, but are they willing to open their spiritual eyes to see their situation? Their situation is this: “thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked”.
Many people live like the riches, but have negative net worth. (for example, going to Cheesecake factory, eat out four times a week, buy expensive stuff, all by credit card)
Many people are functioning, but only if they still get their expensive prescription drugs. (Depression? Take this pill)
Many people have regrets, but they repressed them with positive thinking.
Many Church goers go to church every week, but they have nothing except human tradition, doctrines of deceptions, and a bunch of other boring, irrelevant teachings in their heads. Many of them were sincere and teachable, but each week they were slowly being taught to become religious rebels.
They are miserable, but when God knocks on their doors, they suddenly feel better and tell Him that “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing”.
And they really believe that.
I think that’s because humans can’t survive if they always have perfect consciousness and awareness of their problems. You have to somehow separate your reality from your consciousness in order to function in this harsh life without God, or, if you are one of the church goers, without being God-centered.
For me, only when I have been repeatedly brought back to a low point every now and then, do I realize the truth— that I need to reject those doctrines of deceptions, that I need to embrace what the Bible really says about prosperity, that I should really live by faith each day, and that I have to admit that many the real, biblical teachings that were lost in most of our institutional churches today.
Only then, can I really glorify God.
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