Have you ever just started your day and you felt the need to buy something? It does not matter what, just something. It's funny because you wake up feeling good, better than you have in a long time. You start thinking about what do I need? You don't need anything, so you start on, what do I want? I haven't bought anything in so long, I deserve something. Everyone around me has bought what they wanted, why not me? True enough I have everything thing I need. I have a car, home, clothes, and food. This feeling is just overwhelming though. So you get up, get ready, and your off. To where, you have no idea, but you head to the store because after all, that's where all the stuff is. So you look at the things you like and can afford, but that is not quite what you are wanting. Moving on to other places, things that are still within your financial comfort, but stretching it somewhat. Moving on. Still haven't seen anything, so you go elsewhere, finally, you find something or things you really want, oh no it is not in your reach, you can't pay for it, out comes the credit card. Guilt starts showing its head just a little but you ignore it because you want this. It won't hurt to get this, you think, I'll just pay it off when the bill comes in. Oh, look! YAY! There is something that goes with this! Well, I'll get this too. I can't buy one without the other. I cannot wait to buy it. You get to your car, can't wait to look at it. You hold it examining it, then the how am I going tell my husband I charged this. OH I know, I will just tell him of the great bargain I got, after all, it was on sale. True I didn't need this, true I had to charge this. I deserve this. I hardly ever get something this nice. It's not my fault we don't make enough money, I work too, I should be able to buy whatever I want. I don't need to justify this to anyone. So on you go with new energy, with a new resolve. You start looking for other things to buy. You were supposed to be saving for maybe a car, home, or for the kids, but then you get angry, you start blaming everything and everyone for your purchase. You think, What does it matter anyway? We owe so much on that credit card, we will be paying on it forever, am I supposed to never get anything ever again. Then you start thinking, If my husband would have taken that better job, he was offered, I wouldn't need to charge anything. He gets what he wants. He bought some tools for his job. They were expensive. I haven't spent what he did. Then comes the thinking, I should just hide it for a while. I pay the bills he will never know.
When you woke up this morning you did not Praise The LORD. So the good feeling you had at the beginning of your day has turned into your feeling of inadequacy and of unhappiness. The LORD has Blessed you in every way, you have forgotten that. You started looking at the things you don't have instead of the things you do. You blame your shortcomings, your faults on others. You don't even realize that you were being tested this morning and you failed. The spirit of the lust of the eye has caught you in its power. It had you were looking at the things of this world. We are to exercise the SPIRITUAL eyes of The LORD. Just like everything we are to know that it should Spiritually be discerned. We are now a Spiritual being. We are no longer of the flesh. Get your heart and mind on the SPIRITUAL instead of your eyes on the world. Remember you are a Child of GOD, you are not a child of this world anymore. Don't wake to a feeling of the need to buy.
Awake to RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!
Donna1/3/2018
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