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Keeping Your Faith Alive (26)
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, we say the material is immaterial, the facts clearly show materialism is the real force which governs our lives.
Our money has the inscription, “In God We Trust,” when in fact, we trust 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?
Keeping our faith alive is by establishing 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 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 devote our attention and love. Either faith is a reality or our possessions. Whichever we choose, our faith or our possessions, possesses 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, or be taken away.
