MONDAY, MARCH 23
Deuteronomy 28:11 The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity.
What is prosperity? How should it be measured? We are living in very challenging times. We are nervous about things that we always took for granted. But we are not the first generation to have known difficult days.
An October 1932 issue of Ladies Home Journal said that “The return of good times is not wholly a matter of money. There is a prosperity of living which is quite as important as prosperity of pocketbook.” We have so much. Does it really matter if we can’t eat out as often as before? Are you going hungry? Do you really NEED that new coat or jacket? Aren’t you already warm?
For one month try not spending for anything except food and the necessary items to keep your home such as mortgage and utilities. Do you even realize all the wonderful gifts that we have that are free? Take a walk. Go to the library. Have a dinner with friends. Cozy up with a good book. Write that letter you have been putting off. Visit someone you haven’t seen for a while. COME TO CHURCH.
In her book Simple Abundance, Sarah Ban Breathnach tells us to “Accept with joy the life we are living, our circumstances, our feelings, our problems, our financial status, our work, our health, our relationship with others, the delay of our dreams. Before we can change anything in our life we have to recognize that this is the way it was meant to be right now.”
I can’t imagine anything harder than such acceptance. We all have serious problems but there is a place to place your worries. Pray. I guarantee that you will feel your stress soften and your concerns lessen. God is listening to us, but are we listening to Him? Sometimes His answer is not what we think we want to hear. Listen more closely. Accept where you are right now. Pray, and then LISTEN TO GOD.
Prayer: Thank you for granting us abundant prosperity. Help us to realize all that we have. Amen.
Joyce Uzelac
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