We may lacking time, energy, and even money - however we should consider our self blessed if in the Lord. Why? Because our very lack is the very opportunity we have to latch onto the Lord in an unashamed dependence... When we are aware of our natural inadequacies the Lord can impart to us His blessing, training us to rely wholeheartedly on Him.
Last night in leadership training I studied in a Bible study what it meant to experience true wealth in the Lord. The world states to seek after 'things'. The Word of God emphasizes the importance of seeking after the 'God of the things'.
The travesty is that many of us are wealthy through our relationship with the Lord, and we don't even realize it! Lack in the natural, sets us up for a far different perspective on life. Like a pair of glasses that magnifies the challenge and shrinks our ability to make a worthy contribution, we may truly feel extremely inadequate. However, we as believers all have eternal and internal riches that supersede what is reflected in the bank account, or what we drive or where we live. It is having the fruit of the spirit, love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, meekness, self-control, those things that can never be taken away when we recognize our source in an eternal God!
"Being confident of this, that HE who began a good work in (me) WILL carry it on to completion, until the day He comes (for me)." (Phil. 1:6)
My lack of confidence is challenged by God Confidence! Therein lies my highest confidence...
In Him alone..
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