God undergoes also by the prosperity God also undergoes us by the prosperity! Although we , we also, " folks of little faith " in distress we turn to Him who alone can help us , our sense of misery leads us to look to Him and , in any of us, He makes us valuable experience . While in the days when everything goes well, we do not have enough awareness of our true needs , we tend to move away from God and turn to the world, to live selfishly , to glorify us what we have, materially or spiritually , forgetting that we have received from God . Christian lives that have been ruined by prosperity, especially material prosperity! How, on the contrary, have been enriched throughout painful experiences! Can we not say that prosperity is probably the most difficult test to pass successfully? The beginning of the reign of Uzziah was characterized by great prosperity, as the king of Judah had sought the Lord "during the days when he sought the LORD, God made ??him to prosper " and " he was marvelously helped until that it became stronger. " The first five verses of chapter 26 of the second book of Chronicles we depict the beginning of his reign, until outstanding in all respects. Uzziah was tested and prosperity showed the state of his heart! "But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to lose, and he sinned against the LORD his God." While it would have remained much closer to God he saw his extended hand be upon him, he is proud and sinned against the Lord! Probably an undergo, whatever it is, is a means God uses to highlight the status of a heart , but in many cases , are there any who can do it better than prosperity ? Blessings, material or spiritual , are granted to us can make us forget the Giver , lead us to the selfishness and ignorance of eternal realities , which is one of the lessons presented by the Lord in the parable of Luke 12:16-21. It is also the danger for which the people of Israel were warned while ending his journey in the desert, he would enter the land of promise. During these forty years the Lord had proven in many ways " to know what was in his heart " (Deuteronomy 8:2 ) , and now the " good land " opened before him , Jehovah Himself said by the mouth of Moses: " Take heed to thyself, lest you forget the Lord the God ... for fear that when you eat , and you will be satisfied ... and all that is yours to multiply , then your heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God ... and you will say in thine heart, My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth "(Deuteronomy 8:11-20 ) .
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 06:09:34 +0000
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