I was reading my daily devotional “Jesus Calling” this morning . . . I highly recommend it. The subject was Eve in the Garden of Eden. Oh, we’ve all heard the story of Eve and the fall and we men tend to joke that it (the fall) was all the women’s fault and so on.
The subject this morning was the fact that the way Satan tempted Eve was to get her to darken her perspective by showing her the one thing she could not have . . . the fruit from the apple tree. Think about it . . . . she was in the Garden of Eden . . . everything was perfect for cryin’ out loud! Yet Satan coerced her into looking right past all the perfection she lived in every day and to focus on the one . . . the only thing on the planet that she was forbidden to have . . . the fruit from the apple tree.
I don’t know about you but I sure have a tendency to do exactly the thing that Eve did. I live a life with an over abundance of blessings . . . good health . . . wonderful marriage . . . great lifestyle . . . and the list goes on into eternity . . . the blessings I live with. Yet, when there is one thing not exactly right, we tend to be unhappy . . . discontent until that thing is fixed. How self-centered and selfish is that?!
As I was thinking about this, the thought occurred to me that we need to be good stewards of what God has given us. Oh, we have all heard those stewardship sermons where the preacher tells us that we have been blessed with income and we should give 10% to God and I don’t disagree with that.
But let me take that a step further . . . I challenge you to think about ALL of the blessings of our lives . . . our finances . . . the sunrise . . . the blooming flowers you saw on the way to have a root canal . . . ALL of your blessings as something we need to be a good steward of. Rather than taking those wonderful things for granted . . . give thanks!
Don’t let Satan . . . and the world darken your perspective into only being able to focus on the things that need fixing . . . look at ALL the things in your life that God has ALREADY fixed . . . and give thanks! Our perspectives will brighten and our minds will be more open to hearing God’s voice in our lives!
Amen and Amen!
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