More or Less - "To Have More - Be Self-less"

"I want a feast! I want a bean feast!" I suppose I gave away the fact that I recently watched "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory". I always thought, "this greedy kid is singing about her greatest material desires and she wants beans?! She needs help - she needs it now. It's imperative to define "having much". I am not referring to material gain. God is not going to teach on the unimportance, even the distraction, of material wealth and then make requiring "things" a goal of a believer. There is a drastic difference between what we want and what we need, isn't there? If you are a parent, you may have actually found yourself saying this. "No, you don't need an Xbox, you want the Xbox."

 God said he would meet our needs (Phil. 4:19; Matt. 6:25-34) while warning us about prioritizing material gain (Matt. 6:19-21). I am well aware of the prosperity gospel and I support it - if it refers to prospering in the things of God over the world. I am simply saying that if following God meant every believer would be blessed with material riches, then I know several vagabond disciples who might disagree as well as support the statement that they were some of the richest men in the Bible, in the true, Biblical sense of wealth.

Seeking more of God should be every believer's desire. What a treasure it is to grow closer to Him and deeper in Him! Even the deepest and most rewarding vein of gold will eventually be mined out and left bare - but the love and the knowledge of God is endless!  Jesus told the Samaritan woman that if we drink from this well (the relationship with God in Christ) we will never thirst again.


Much Love!