Today’s Encouragement is, “Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable. Their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment.” 1 Timothy 6:17 NLT
So Unreliable –
The wisdom of biblical truth is often confirmed in experience.
We all go through seasons in life, seasons of growth and decline, health and illness, comfort and struggles, hope and despair. It is an essential element of maturity to recognize that change is inevitable and that seasons come and go. (Ecc. 3:1)
But as believers in Christ, we have the opportunity, the privilege, to see life from the eternal perspective, by considering that ‘this world’, ‘this life,’ is NOT all there is.
Our money, our comforts, our security, our very lives are transitory, temporary, and ‘so unreliable’ as today’s verse clarifies. And we are blessed when this truth becomes so clear for us all in our daily lives. When we see the things we trust in —financial stability, health, and relationships — begin to fail us… We then have the opportunity, if we will, to recognize the biblical truth that everything in this life will fail us.
Our health declines, our wealth comes and goes, our friends, even our families disappoint us… and YET!… God is where we place our Trust! He alone ‘richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment’!
Help us, Lord, to trust only in You… You alone can and do richly provide us with all we need!
My Worth Is Not In What I Own
Fernando Ortega, Keith and Kristyn Getty
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