Blessings and Woes
Do you look around at what is going on today and fell like life is slipping away? Is your heart sick? Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
Perhaps God is showing us how much we are trusting in this world.
We don’t know how much we trust in this world until the things of this world are taken away.
How would we pray to God if tomorrow the grocery stores were taken away? Give us this day our daily bread is a different prayer when there are no stores and no flour. Why should our prayer with no store be any different in a world with stores?
Put faith in God for His blessings and don’t put faith in this world.
The Righteousness of God
The fact that we are not righteous is the number one problem facing all people. God is righteous, and He expects righteousness in all people. God will not allow immorality in His kingdom. We, who are unrighteous, put locks on our doors to keep unrighteous people out. God, who is perfectly righteous, has a sign over the gate to the entrance to His kingdom which reads, “no unrighteousness allowed.”
Because we are unrighteous, we need righteousness. It is our biggest and greatest need. Without righteousness, we may not step one foot into the kingdom of heaven.