though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them. One thing God has spoken, two things I have heard: “Power belongs to you, God, and with you, Lord, is unfailing love”; and, “You reward everyone according to what they have done.”
I don't usually focus on an entire chapter but I felt this whole Psalm needed to be read to fully understand our reliance on the father, the source of strength, power and all things needed to sustain us. We too often place our focus on the world and all it has to offer as a way to get "things", "position" or "fame" instead of turning to the source of all that we need, Christ. If we'd only listen a little longer, speak a little less and find that God provides for us what we need for whatever season of life we are going through. We look to the physical instead of the spiritual to satisfy, when what we need is more of Him and less of this world.
Paraphrasing Psalm 62, if this whole world would turn against me, if nothing again would come to me good from this world... my God would be all that I'd need. So often I hear as I talk with women in ministry that they lack trust. Believe me when I say that I understand that all too well. Trusting in people, in the things of this world has steered me wrong every time. My hope and my trust only are in the Lord now. Does that mean that I can't trust anyone? No, but I turn to the father now to know who and what I can trust and believe in versus just freely giving it as thought it was something invaluable. Trust is priceless, our hearts have been purchased with the ultimate price.
I no longer buy into what this world is selling me. It may look beautiful for a moment, but the moment fades and so does the beauty. As a woman there are so many products to cause our physical appearance to be altered, to be made more "beautiful". Things to change our shape, our skin, our hair and our face. But I've not found a product yet that can change the heart, where our true beauty rests. I can work hard at making my physical being look it's best, and there is nothing wrong with that, but if I invest more time in the physical makeover than I do in my spiritual it will been for nothing as this body is temporary but my soul everlasting. Every moment I waste on selfish gain is a stolen moment from my Heavenly Father.
Whatcha buying? Are your purchases life changing, life giving, everlasting or are they temporary causing you to feel even more empty than when you bought them to begin with. Are you honoring yourself by what you are buying into, are you honoring God? Or are you simply just buying whatever the world has to offer for the feel good moment? Maybe it's time to switch from buying to investing and begin investing in life eternal.
Under His Wings,
Heather
