Riches of the Lord

I see a lot in the world about money, cars and clothes. It is apparent many people, Christians included have forgotten (including myself) what it means to believe in an omnipotent Covenant God who takes care of His children. In Genesis 15 God tells Abram " Look, now toward Heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them". And He said to him, "so shall your descendants be". Why would God have pointed Abram to the heavens? God created them out of the word of His mouth! If God can do that, surely God can provide the children of the covenant to a man far too old to have children and a wife of barren womb. God has all that we need. The faith in Him that He provides by Grace is more precious than any richness acquired on this vapor trail we live on. Christ's righteousness is a glory to which we can have under the blessings of faith from God by grace. I have to remember this constantly: that God is going to provide because of the righteousness He has provided unto me by the graciousness of His own heart. He has reconciled me to him and faith is now mine to believe. I want that. I NEED that daily; much less than a coffee fix or new guitar. I need to remember the Sovereign Lord loves His children and provides for them, NOT NECESSARILY by the accumulation of money and things, but the things that REALLY matter. Provisions of Love, Mercy, Faith, Hope, Trust, etc and even, yes even! in times of trial and affliction!
Moreover, this faith is only realized in the death of the old self. Righteousness can only be put on we God circumcises our prideful, disobedient hearts and puts in us a law of love. These are the riches of the Lord. Amen

Weightless in a Vaccum Through a Glass Darkly...

David wells writes

“It is one of the defining marks of Our Time that God is now weightless. I do not mean by this that is ethereal but rather that he has become unimportant. He rests upon the world so inconsequentially as not to be noticeable. He has lost his saliency for human life. Those who assure the pollsters of their belief in God's existence may nonetheless consider him less interesting than television, his commands less authoritative than their appetites for affluence and influence, his judgment no more awe-inspiring than the evening news, and his truth less compelling than the advertisers' sweet fog of flattery and lies. That is weightlessness. It is a condition we have assigned him after having nudged him out to the periphery of our secularized life. His truth is no longer welcome in our public discourse. The engine of modernity rumbles on, and he is but a speck in its path.” Quote http://members.aol.com/augusteen/Weightless.html

God's distance from us at times seems to be a great deal of perspective. I would argue that perspective has to do with our view of the scripture. God is never more real than through the illumined truth of the Bible, Old and New Testaments. This is His revelation to His people for all time.
We live in not just a period of time (the 21st c) but in a place that is at it's core dark and bleak. The hope however is in the washing of this earth in the blood of a savior that has come to heal and make glad his creation and people! We would do well to consider this as we go through the ins and outs of our daily routine and consider the immensity and intimacy of our God.

Amen.