Key Verse: These all wait for
You, that You may give them their food in due season (Psalm 104:27)
We fear losing our job, our
health insurance and our retirement benefits, so we amass possessions, thinking
the more we have the safer we are. The same insecurity motivated the builders
of the Tower of Babel: “…let us build…a tower whose top is in the heavens; let
us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the
whole earth” (Genesis 11:4).
Can’t you hear the fear in those
words? Just like us stockpiling pensions, possessions and property, they
accumulated and stacked until their tower of belongings grew so tall it reached
heaven. Then they said, “We are safe!” But God said, “No you aren’t!”
The Bible says, “Command those
who are rich…not to…trust in uncertain riches but in the living God… (1 Timothy
6:17). Riches don’t bring security. The more you have, the more you have to
lose. It’s ironic; the more you accumulate the more protective you become, and
the greater your concern that it could all be swept away by events you can’t
control.
That’s not how God intended you
to live. He wants you to save and He wants you to sow. And when you have done
all that wisdom demands, to trust in nothing but Him. The Psalmist said: “…living
things…small and great…all wait for You, that you may give them their food in
due season” (Psalm 104:25-27 NKJV). And He does.
God’s the great giver, absolutely
generous and utterly dependable. The resounding message of the Scripture is
clear: God owns it all. God shares it all. So place your trust in Him – not in
belongings.
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