This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson, I'm director of the Southside Life Station and pastor of
the United Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo and you're receiving this message because
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Thinking today of Proverbs 28-11 where it says, the rich man is wise in his own eyes
but the poor who had understanding he's through him.
The fact is it's really easy for people to think they've got it all together, they'll
think everything is okay, even they may judge themselves or think that they're bad or wicked
or that their life is not going the way that it should go and basically they're taking
the place of God because of their wealth, because of their success, they think that
they have the ability to make those determinations and they're frankly wrong.
Those of us who are poor in spirit, we're going to inherit much but the bottom line
is being poor sometimes opens your mind to realize that you don't have everything and
you don't need everything.
You have what you need and that's the wisdom of life.
Trying to be wealthy, trying to make $900 an hour by some kind of side job or trying
to collect millions or lots of property in this lifetime, these things are not necessary.
What we do with this lifetime is about serving others.
Jesus said, the greatest amongst us shall be your servant and so we have the opportunity
to serve others and make a difference in this world and that's what we really ought to
be about and sometimes you find folks who aren't rich who have figured that out and
I think that's what this verse is about.
So let's live as if we've figured out what this life is really about, not collecting
wealth, but living, valuing what Jesus has done for us and what we might do for others.
God bless you today.
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