I'm thinking today of Proverbs chapter 23, verse
5. It says, When you set your eyes on it, it
is gone, for wealth certainly makes itself wings,
like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
Well, this verse is definitely talking about
money, but also it's talking about focus. It's
about what you give your attention to, where
you put your eyes. And so it seems it's saying
that if you put your eyes a lot on something,
you could say any blessing, not just money. If
you put your eyes and focus your eyes on that
thing, if you want more money, You want more
better relationships, or you want people to behave
a certain way, or you want something to go on
in your job, whatever. And as that thing comes,
you're very focused on it. Then this verse is
basically saying the tendency of it is to take
flight and to be gone. When it comes to money,
money is always kind of coming or going. The
state of how much money we have is changing on
a fairly regular basis. The resources that we
receive from God, the blessings that we receive
from God, have a pretty select purpose. They
are that we might share with others as God leads.
we might glorify God for the receiving and use
those blessings to build our relationship with
him to the best of our ability, that we might
always look back to the giver. The tendency might
be to get focused on the blessing, turn it into
an idol, and it's just not meant to be. We don't
worship things, good, bad, ugly, whatever. If
there's a lot of it, if there isn't, if it seems
powerful, if it doesn't, if it seems like you
need it, if it seems like you don't, whatever.
We don't worship those things. They are literally
worth nothing to us compared to the God of heaven.
who gives us all that we desire, if our hearts
are in line with his desire for us. Praise the
Lord today.