It does not matter whether one is rich or poor, if we are not using it for the advancement of the Kingdom of God, it will be considered sin. Whether we give from our abundance or from our lack, He is watching and testing you. Job was tested for he experienced both abundance and lack. If a season of lack comes, how will you react? Will you react as Job or as his wife?
At a moment in his life, Job loathed his birth but he did not hold anything against God. However, his wife said to Job, "Curse God and die." The situation showed that Job's wife was with him only for his money and she was only praising God conditionally. As far as she was concerned, life was over.
Job 2:9(AMP) Then his wife said to him, Do you still hold fast your blameless uprightness? Renounce God and die!
Many believe Job was a righteous man. Yes he was but he did have a couple problems. He was a worrying man. You see, worrying is a sin regardless. Whatever you worry or fear may come to pass by your own faith for faith will work both ways. God used the situation and allowed the test to get rid of Job's worry and to break any pride that might have been looming. What pride you may ask? For scripture says he was the greatest of the east.
Job 1:3 (AMP) He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very great body of servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East.
What was Job worrying about? It is in Job 3:25, "For the thing which I greatly fear comes upon me, and that of which I am afraid befalls me."
Dark and difficult days are ahead of us. How will you react as you will witness the world receive her judgments? Will you stand your ground knowing God is faithful or will you run in fear back to Egypt and bondage? If you have not learned to trust God in your comfort how will you trust Him in your personal tribulation? The hour will get darker so His sons and daughters will shine brighter! The hour will get darker so His lukewarm children who are only seeing grey at this moment may see His Light and return to their First Love!
Ask Him to mold and train you NOW! Ask Him to help you get through your storms for He is your strength. Ask Him to help you grow in His Grace moving from Glory to Glory. So when the day comes and the world trembles, you will not shrink back but instead you will shine in the darkness.
Ask Him to mold and train you NOW! Ask Him to help you get through your storms for He is your strength. Ask Him to help you grow in His Grace moving from Glory to Glory. So when the day comes and the world trembles, you will not shrink back but instead you will shine in the darkness.
Fire of God!!
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