I've been struggling with the "bounty" we've been living in and wondering when will life go down again since the metals market is like that & familiar to what I've watched all my life in the scrap business.
My insight this AM is was spurred by Beth Moore's Stepping Up study:
when I felt secure I said, I will never be shaken, O Lord, when You favored ME, You made MY mountain stand firm, but when You hid Your face, I was dismayed. (Ps. 30:6-7)
Beth says on page 69 of the workbook, David was the first to ascribe his prosperity to the Lord, but somewhere along the way he mistakenly placed his security in the blessing of God rather than God Himself. We often know enough not to ascribe our security to carnal, worldy things. Our greater and slyer temptation is to place our security in the blessings we readily credit to the Lord.
In my questioning over these bounty years I've declared - I want to be content in Christ like a marriage - in richer for poorer. I know what it was like to have $2 in my checking and hope that the $22 check for the phone bill didn't clear.
Beth goes on to say, Even if our security is in something God has given us - our gifts, talents, loved ones,...consistent victory, passion for His Word - our seemingly secure mountain ultimately will fall into the sea. ... If our trust is in manifestations of God's favor rather than God Himself, we will crumble like dry clay when He calls us to walk a distance of our journeys entirely by faith and not by sight.... Mountain-like security only comes from trusting God, not what He's done for us or given us, however glorious and eternal those things may be... The difference between trusting God and trusting what God has done is fine line we can easily trip over... unknowingly let our security slip from God Himself to His manifest favor.
Being apart of a "word faith" church in the 80's, in the "name it and claim it" or you just don't have enough faith, I'm cautious to proclaim the blessings of God. I think I just got a grasp on what I am to proclaim!
I TRUST GOD! HE IS GOOD! MY SECURITY IS IN MY STRONG GOD!
In this economic shaking, we experienced scrap prices going from the highest they'd ever been to not even being able to sell-to the present stable again - how can I not praise my Good God! But when bad things happen to God's people and I want to question God? Is He still the same - yesterday, today and forever? If I end up with cancer - is my God still the Good God that I proclaim Him to be? Do we boast in our God when things in our life are difficult or can we say with security - I will not be shaken! ... that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent! O Lord, my God, I will give thanks to You forever! (Ps. 30:6 & 11-12)
