Poor or Rich?

Everyone is poor until they are rich in God.
 

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."  Matthew 6:21

Believers can be brilliant in the things of God.  That is, if we understand God's definition of brilliant.

Instead of thinking in terms of IQ, think of illumination.  God's Spirit lives in our hearts to flood it with Light from Him, as He teaches and shows us the Truth of His Word.

We are "sons of Light."

So, if a bulb is dim, you turn it up to the next level of brilliance.

God's Spirit reveals the things FREELY given to us by Him through His Son.  God reveals freely.

To know the Lord, to know the TRUTH as God has written it for us, is exclusively His position to reveal  and cause us to understand it. 

If we pervert it, distort it, change it, interpret it according to natural thinking, religious thinking, selfish thinking, or a stubborn refusal to bend (if it's not right or perfected), we definitely will not experience the true and living Savior as God intended for our lives here on planet Earth.

Don't know about you, but I've had to "bend" my thinking many times, because God was/is perfecting my understanding.  Also, I revisit things I thought I had understood.  This is because the enemy is subtle. 

In one of the parables Jesus told, (Matthew 13) he said the enemy came in the night and sowed tares. Actually, it says that as the men slept the tares were sowed.  So that is taken to mean "in the night."  Satan works in the darkness.  The men DID NOT KNOW  tares had been sown among the wheat, until the grain had sprouted and produced a crop.

This needs to be pondered.  For the ways of the Satan are subtle in sowing things in the mind which may "sound right," or make us feel like we have it all boxed up and tied with a neat bow.  We are admonished to continually seek the Lord, be vigilant, and grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ until we are matured into His stature.  I truly believe we can know (I John 2:27) truth, but it will "sit down in the center of our hearts" with absolute assurance by God's Spirit.

I had a devotion planned for yesterday, but it needs to bake some more.  It's still baking.

As they would do on television - interrupt programs in order to make an announcement, so it seems my devotions are interrupted from  yesterday,  to say these things.

I will close with a prayer:

"Dearest Father God, thank you that it is YOU who works in us both to will and to do of Your good pleasure.  Thank you for Romans.  Thank you for the example you gave us in Romans 4 regarding Abraham.  You have revealed that You are so personal with our lives down to the smallest detail.  Everything is about Your plan, Your will, Your Truth.  Thank you for Christ Jesus Himself and His dwelling in us.  Thank you for illuminating Your Word to our hearts in brilliance."

Sue Gaither