Saturday, 13 June 2009

• How can we be rich towards God?

  
  One of my favorite Christian rappers, Lecrae, has a great song and video out called Don't Waste Your Life.
  
  I loved the song from the jump. The lyrics are on point and highlights a key Bible passage. Lecrae mentions this Bible passage in his first verse, but I never looked up the verse (and I've been ridin' this song out since October).
  
  So, I looked it up today. Luke 12:15-21 KJV:
  
  

   ¹⁵And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. ¹⁶And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: ¹⁷And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? ¹⁸And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. ¹⁹And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. ²⁰But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
  

  ²¹So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

  All the hype in America about the economy being bad hasn't really moved me until recently. I trusted in God throughout my last two semesters of college and no matter what the media said, I continued to seek Him (not for money or blessings) but just because I knew He was faithful.

  My last semester of college, this past spring, I held an internship position in a hospital. I constantly wondered how my life could serve God in a corporate setting. There must be Christians out there who can balance a non-secular position and still hold on to their faith in God. Everyone in my hospital internship seemed to hold this position that God isn't relative or necessary in the workplace.
  

  This hurt me and began to affect my faith in God. Instead of standing firm in my faith (in season and out), I gave in. I wanted to succeed in my internship. I compromised. I ended up not doing as well as I thought anyway. I felt horrible for pushing God to the side while I focused on an experience that turned out to be not so fruitful.

  So, here I am today. A recent graduate; hoping to get into a nursing program in the Fall; jobless. I still haven't gotten to a point where I trust God like I used to. However, everyday that I pray, everytime that I fast, everyday that I tell my flesh and my self-desires "NO!",everyday that I start having a servant's heart like Christ, God is leading me closer and closer to Him. Don't believe the devil's lies; reject them and seek truth!
  

  James 4:8 says "Draw nearer to God, and he'll draw nearer to you."

  Amen and amen! So, if you want to draw closer to God, learn from the man in the Luke 12 passage. Don't be distracted by things that have no eternal value and ask God and find out how you can be rich towards Him.

  Love, peace and a lil bit of chicken grease.

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