Devotional Truth: VALUING YOUR OWN COUNTRY - Matthew 13:54 The verse says that Jesus went to His OWN country. The Bible could have said that Jesus went to His country, but added the word ‘own’. To own something means that it belongs to you in particular and not to somebody else. Until you own what belongs to you, others will own it. We must own whatever God gives us, speaking especially of our country of origin. Anything you don’t own will lost value or be abused. What lessons do we learn here? There are many of us who forsake, neglect and even abandon our own country for the country of others. We treat as if God made a mistake by placing us there. Some are proud and even boast in or of the country of others than their own. You cannot own what belongs to others and disown what belongs to you; this is contradictory and irrational! Personally, I learned what it means to value your own during my thirteen years of stay in Ghana. They believe that Ghana is their own and express their ownership in many ways. They believe that Ghana is first and Ghanaians are first. In fact, they say “Ghana is the best”. They go or travel to other countries, but never forget their culture and nativity. They invest in and are developing their own country. They may not be a developed country, so to speak, but to some extent, they are making remarkable progress. You can’t believe in others more than your own. You cannot value others more than your own no matter the state and conditions of your own. Some people admire others than their own, praise others and condemn their own, hail others and put down their own. Even God will not accept that. Going to, visiting, or Living in the country of others for whatever reasons is not wrong in itself, but doing so at the expense or neglect of your own country is great evil and is contrary to the wisdom of God. Let’s value our OWN!
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 07:35:55 +0000
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