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Keeping Our Faith Alive (24)
Would there be much of a difference in your life if spiritual things did not exist? For some, the cold reality is “NO.” Life would be no different than it currently is. Although with lip service you may say the material is immaterial, the facts clearly show materialism is the real force which governs your life.
Our money has the inscription “In God We Trust.” Truth be known, we may trust the money more than the motto. HOw can faith gain a firm hold on a Christian who believes more in what he sees than what he does not see?
To keep our faith alive is to establish God as the source of our existence and sustenance. What is material will never provide and fill up what God can. OUr lives are “hollow” without devotion to the spiritual.
The example of the rich man in Luke 12:13-21 illustrates what accumulation of wealth does. It caused him to “lay up treasure for himself,” and he was “not rich toward God.” Those in 1 Timothy 6:17 were “charged” not to have “their hope set on the uncertainty of riches.”
Whatever is real to us is where we focus and devote our attention and love. In the case of each Christian, our faith or our possessions possess us. Although possessions and wealth may rule the world’s economy, it takes a backseat in the economy of the kingdom of God. Build your faith by “laying up treasures in heaven” (Matthew 6:19-24). It will never lose its value, nor be taken away.
