Thoughts for another day

Jan. 9, 2014.

Today's verse: Matt. 6:30. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

In our tryst to make ourselves financially secure, there’re many of us who flirt with danger by investing in nefarious schemes that promise the earth.  What’s more, once we join, just as someone lured us into it, we lure many and then they lure others and it’s a vicious line up of hungry greedy men and women, wanting to make a fast buck; eventually losing everything.   Then there’re others that do things even worse by manufacturing goods using substandard material, then selling them off for pittances.  The people most likely to fall for these goods are the poor who out of their meager funds buy them and are worse off for it.

Strange are the ways men think of making money.  Look out there, there’s a cacophony of product spiels all over the media.  You switch on any and there, you have a product message.  This is simply people selling unwanted things to gullible people to make that fast buck so as to make money and financially secure.  There’re others who make large investments in insurance for the future and so on.  I ask these people:  If you believe in God, do you think God can’t take care of your future and your needs in it?

That’s the crux of our Word today.  The example Jesus gives is that God clothes the grass of the field with such grandeur despite the fact that it’s going to wither in a jiffy then Jesus asks the question that should shame us who worry and fret so much about things concerning us.  Truly, in the context of this, I urge you my friend to stop worrying and start living, just trusting God for all your needs and even your fanciful desires (if I may say with due cognizance to God’s ways) and God will grant them.  Just trust Him and they will all be yours for our God is a mighty God and He says, Ps. 50:12, ‘the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.’  And if all is His, will He not give what you ask, He who is so generous and beautiful?