Meaningful priorities!!
Verse for Today: Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Genesis 4:20 – Adah gave birth
to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.
The current revolution in habitat
and food has its origin with Jabal who was in the lineage of Cain during the
Noahaic period when the world abounded in abomination. When man lived without
God, he looked for ways to satisfy his self will and lust which led him to experiment
with all kinds of appetites of the flesh. He had a craving for living in newer
habitats that he experimented with. Man lived independently and dwelled in sin
for which the habitat revolution was a boon. Habitat experiments helped him to
become a world traveler whose revolutionary dwellings took the form of
caravans, tents, parks, communes, collapsible and prefabricated abodes in
unimaginable shapes and sizes evolved to make it easier for him to live in corruption
and violate God’s commandments. Man also had great physical appetite which led
him to revolutionize livestock business to satiate his culinary inclinations. Thus
man proved to himself that he could live without God to satisfy his every selfish
desire. But we see that such riotous and promiscuous living to satisfy all his
earthly cravings led man to destruction. When Jabals lived to please themselves
and all their human desires, God sent a preacher called Noah to admonish people
to live to please their Creator. We have reached a time of similar magnitude in
our materialistic world where man finds dwelling places and culinary variations
to satisfy his fleshly desires. But God wants us to live by totally depending
on Him for our every need according to divine standard. He has promised to meet
our daily needs including a place to sleep where we can pray and find rest for
our bodies as we toil for Him. He has promised to give us food to eat to
strengthen our bodies and prepare ourselves to serving Him. He reminds us that
we ought to live by faith in dependence on Him. He wants us to live to please
Him and not our fleshly desires. He expects us to be satisfied with all that He
gives us, and grow in faith and dependence on Him.
Dear friend, are you craving for amenities
to please your ego, fleshly desires and craving for comforts? Is there an intense
desire for you to find satisfaction in the temporal pleasures that this world offer?
Are you seeking after attractions in stylish housing, tempting food and posh living,
and amassing the same for generations by using the time and the talents that
God has given you to serve Him? Remember, God offers you stability, rest,
peace, satisfaction and sustainability and promises to help you to live by
faith and in total dependence on Him. Your best is yet to come and it is far
beyond what the world can and will offer. Heaven is far greater than anything
the world has ever imagined and created. What the world offers you gives only
temporary satisfaction. Once you have it, you will lose its thrill and will
grope for something beyond. This is why we see revolution in habitat, food and
every other fleshly appetite which leave people empty. Your deepest and
ultimate craving ought to be for God. The happiest man on earth was not rich
with a posh lifestyle, but one who had no place to lay his head and had nothing
material to offer to His followers. He wants us to follow Him and look forward
for His eternal best. Today God wants you to rearrange your priorities and give
Him utmost place in your life. He doesn’t want you to crave for the
materialistic things in life, but develop a deep thirst for the eternal things.
Today He wants you to have a holy detachment from all that the world offers and
holy craving for all that God offers to live to please Him and live for Him.
Colossians 3:2 – Set your
minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Thought for Today
The happiest person is one who
forsakes the temporal and thrusts forward for the eternal and the permanent.
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