Sunday – Poetry

Reading – Psalms 72-74

Highlight Verses:

“These fat cats have everything their hearts could ever wish for!
Then I realized that my heart was bitter, and I was all torn up inside.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭73‬:‭7‬, ‭21‬ ‭NLT‬‬

I grew up poor. I’ve never been wealthy by American standards (though by third world standards…).

I’ve spent a fair amount of time wishing I had what other’s have.

I’ve even speculated what I would do if I won one of those huge lottery jackpots.

That might not be a horrible thing. But is it a good thing?

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with working hard to achieve financial success. In most cases, I don’t see a problem with winning the lottery (though the money bet could probably be better used elsewhere).

But we humans can be excessive.

We wallow in jealousy or self pity.
We ignore our family and spiritual life in pursuit of wealth.
We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need.

Before we get to the point of being all torn up inside, let’s get our priorities back in order –

God
Family
Community and Country

Most of us should have no problem keeping those priorities without driving that Mercedes to our beach house sporting our RayBans and Coach accessories.

So the next time I find myself wrenching under the hood of the old minivan (again), I’ll think about how blessed I am.

I have all I need.

Do you?