“Your day is coming. What the world has overlooked, your Father has remembered, and sooner than you can imagine, you will be blessed by him."
-Max Lucado
This is such an uplifting quote. Life can be really frustrating sometimes, especially when you are trying to live your life according to the scriptures. I absolutely love growing up in America and have been truly blessed to have all the opportunities that I have been given. The problem is, that I have also been raised that the "American Dream" is the ultimate accomplishment. Unfortunately, this isn't biblical at all. In fact, its contradictory to what Jesus said. Didn't he tell the rich man: "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven." It is hard to not want the best things(clothes, car, jewelry) especially when you are raised to believe that the more stuff you have the better. Truly following the scripture means giving up what everybody else sees as the ultimate means of happiness. Ouch. But look back at that quote. "What the world has overlooked, your father has remembered." This quote is about a lot more than the American Dream. This quote is about every conscious decision we make to further our relationship with Christ. There are going to be times that we do things that other people don't understand. There are going to be times when we do things that we really don't want to do. I can't tell you how many times I've sat and wondered "why am I doing this? Wouldn't it be easier to just be like everybody else?" Living your life for God is not easy, but that's what makes the second part of this verse so powerful. "Sooner than you can imagine, you will be blessed by him." Although often it seems like we are constantly giving up things and getting no reward for it, the truth is that God has already planned rewards for us, his blessings. How much easier is it to give things up if we know that we are going to be blessed for it? Ok, so lets break this down. If we live our life according to the ways of the Bible and give up the ideas of society, then we will be blessed. So lose some, just to gain even better? That's what the promise of God is. To gain him, you must first lose yourself. This is why we are baptized, why we must first die to be born again. We have to make the decision to give up what we thought we wanted for our lives to receive what God has already prepared for us. Doesn't Psalm 139 talk about how God knows everything about us? And if he knows everything about us, wouldn't he know whats best for us? He does, and he wants to bless us. But first, we have to decide to give up what the world tells us to do, and instead do what he tells us to do. I know this post is a lot of rambling. but I haven't posted in a while and this quote just jumped out at me on tumblr and it really hit home. No matter what you're going through, just keep your faith and follow God's word. No matter how hard it may seem, you will be rewarded by his blessings.
