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A Journal Excerpt - 12.01.11.
1 Corinthians 4:7 - “…What do you have that God hasn’t given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift?”
I want to always be striving to live out this philosophy in detail in my life. It’s the fruit I want to have be produced in my worldview. I want to come to the point where I not only claim everything I have as a gift from God, I actually believe it. If He is everything (truly the fabric and the stitches that seam the universe together) then it is impossible to have anything that isn’t His. I love that. It actually takes a lot of pressure off of us as humans.
I think one of our basic driving tenements tends to be “Achieve! Acquire!” Getting more money or more stuff is somehow thought to elevate our societal status. That’s a lot of pressure for this one life, and it’s pressure that a lot of people tend to fold under. But if everything belongs to God, then that means He gives and takes as he chooses, as He sees fit. So it’s not really up to us how or why things are distributed.
He will care for us. And all He asks is that we use what He gives us to help care for those who don’t have the resources to care for themselves. People often wonder why God would let people starve and die and suffer if He really exists. Maybe it’s because He wants to give the rest of us the opportunity to learn to use our resources in a manner befitting to His Kingdom.
