Are you in a financial COMA?

Are you in a financial COMA? You are in a financial COMA if Messiah Jesus is not your answer to these questions:

  1. Whose againstcontrol your life?
  2. Whose EITHERwns the money and possessions you use?
  3. For whom METERmanage them?
  4. who are you for HASexplicable?

Let’s look at the first element, againstcheck. An Oxford dictionary definition is that control is “the power to direct”. Do you have the “power to direct” your life? Do you think you control the daily events, your income level and next week’s schedule? Think again if you think so. Our problem is that we don’t know what awaits us, but we act as if we do. We believe that the future will look like the present, so we borrow and plan to pay off the debt. But, as an old colleague would say, the future is not what it used to be! Things turn out different; we can’t pay our debts, so we get discouraged and borrow even more. The apostle James puts it this way in James 4:13-15:

Come now, you who say: “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.” However, you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a while and then vanishes. Instead, you should say, “Lord willing, we will live and also do this or that.”

An essential foundation for managing God’s money is realizing that God is in control. We may not give Him control of our lives, but still He controls the universe. He is working around each person. He never stops working.

When he was a young boy, while David was tending his father’s sheep, God was at work and wanted him as king of Israel. This was not David’s plan. He simply listened and responded to God’s call. Similarly, God may be at work in your life today, but rush disease it’s distracting you, so you can’t hear His voice. You’re in a rush trying to direct and control events that you can’t control. Pause; listen, so that you can hear the voice of Jesus; then answer him. He created you. He loves you and invites you to a personal relationship. We read in 1 Timothy 2:3-6:

“… God our Savior… wants all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. Because there is only one God, and only one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all”.

Next time, I’ll look at the other parts of the COMA. May his peace abound in you!

Copyright (c) 2004, 2010, Michel A. Bell

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