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Where is your heart?? / 06.02.08, 12:13 PM
At our church, CastleRock Community Church, we have been doing a study on money… it is a study that intrigues me… and here are some of my responses to it:
****“For where your treasure is, there also is your heart.” Luke 12:34
Too many people today are consumed with stuff… Blame it on the media, our American culture, or wherever else you want, but I believe that the consumption of “stuff” starts with your heart. I really dislike when there is blame put on the media and culture, because we are really the only one’s who are responsible for our money, not the media… we are the only one’s responsible for our heart, not the media… we make our own choices, not the media… we will stand before God someday… not the media. Where is your top priority? I have come to find lately that it is just not “stuff” that we consume too often… but also time… where do I place most of my time? Is it for Him? He is the owner of all time… and of everything… so do I serve Him in this way?
****“What matters is not your outer appearance—the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes—but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in. The holy women of old were beautiful before God that way…” (1 Peter 3- The Message)
So many women today have lost sight of what it means to actually be beautiful… beauty isn’t the million shirts in your closet, the time it takes you to do your hair, or the amount of makeup you wear. If it were, then there would never have been a woman from the Bible that was “beautiful”, since much of those things didn’t exist then… but beauty is mentioned with women from the Bible quite frequently. I wish more women today found there value in Jesus Christ and things of Him than they did in materialism. It burdens my heart so much that women today are caught up in “things”— so many things for no reason whatsoever. These things will not buy them anything— in fact, they cost money. “Things” will never make things better— shopping “highs” really only last for a little while… and then you have to go again.
****“The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off. For when everybody tries to become better off, nobody becomes better off. But when everybody tries to become better, everybody is better off.” -Peter Maurin
This quote really touches me. I think that the most important woman in my life is my mom… and she is a woman of simplicity… She is the world’s biggest bargain shopper and an extreme woman of faith… but she doesn’t have many clothes, the hippest new haircut, or expensive jewelry… instead, her treasure is held up in the Lord, given to her children, and in her heart.
****Convict me, Lord, of ways in which I can step back and let you reign in my heart and in my life. Give me a love for You, your people, and things that satisfy your heart rather than things of this world. Thank you so much for the influences that I have had in my life that have taught me about simplicity! Amen.
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Thats awesome Lace, I have done a similar study. Finish strong! love ya
By Tiffany Shreve / Jun 5, 10:55 AM / #