There is more, but we will settle for one sentence:
“Often, the one with nothing else to desire is far worse off than the one who has little but his or her dreams, because our … illusions are free of the weigh and the worry of dreams realized.” *
Hmmmm. For the man or woman who has everything and doesn’t know what to do next, I have a suggestion. Get more stuff!
Actually, I want to add a qualifier for the kind of things I am advising you to acquire. Kingdom stuff. Too many people in our communities have it all and now have no goal, no new ambition. What should they do with their lives? Go after Kingdom stuff.
This caution first: make sure you acknowledge before you begin this pursuing spiritual objectives will require some significant sacrifice. Know this up front and consider its implications.
To deepen your personal acquaintance with God daily, to converse with individuals over spiritual values, to find an obscure place of service and routinely fill it, to lift a hurting saint simply for the thrill of seeing their healing, to press the Kingdom agenda doing leg work for a church ministry. Now that is a list of Kingdom stuff to go after! When you attain too much of this, let me know.
Tim Gramly
Education Pastor
SHBC
November 18, 2008
* Page 33, Wisdom At Work, Boa and Burnett, NavPress, 2002.
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This is a good word. It reminds me of what a Laodicean I can be when I think I'm standing firmly (just before I fall).
Rev 3:14a "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write...
Rev 3:17 You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
Rev 3:18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
Rev 3:19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.
I'm blind and oh so lost without His guidance. Thank God that He loves me enough to discipline me and set me back on the right course.
For the King and His Kingdom,
Patman
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