LACKING

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 19:20 The young man •said to Him, “All these things I have kept; what am I still lacking?”

People of wealth are usually owned by what they own. Things of affluence and comfort can choke the Word of God out of their golden lives: all sizzle and no steak. We are the culmination of all that past before us and we are the product of that which will be: garbage in – garbage out. A look in our mirror only reflects what we want to view and too often, we don’t see with His eyes. The Light of Jesus is an illumination that discloses real life without the shadows of demons that lurk behind money, power and prestige.

Satan offered Jesus the kingdoms of the world if He would bow down and worship him. It stands to reason that he couldn’t have offered them if he didn’t have them. A glaring example of this is Las Vegas NV: the capital of self-indulgence, decadence and materialism. Sins of pride and covetousness are the magnets that irresistibly draw you to your slow death of spirit and ultimately even your life.

Jesus said that He was the way, the truth and the life!

There is no love in sin. The feeling you get is a pathetic feeling of hate and self-loathing. God made y ou in His Image and Likeness. What can you add to that? Then why try? Your spirit is restless for what you see on the outside instead of who you are, in Him, on the inside. So Satan captures your eyes, flesh and then pride hostage and you become addicted to more, more and more until you finally red-line yourself to death: dead. Christ is your only salvation, got it?

This peace that protesters seek will not and cannot be produced much less even discovered apart from Him. Our hope is then reawakened. The unbelievers shift their center of gravity from divine to human where each becomes god and determines morality, integrity and character upon the basis of “self.” This omission of God is a fatal attraction that Satan relishes in.

The joy we lack is replaced with any counterfeit we will fall for. The devil knows the right buttons to push and even though he can’t make us sin and lose our joy, he can lead us to despair and unhappiness with what appears to be worldly prosperity.

Face the fact that your only security is in the capable hands of your Maker. God alone has all the true wealth and it is all yours in glory if you will let go of it here on earth.