Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“See the one who would not take refuge in God, but trusted in abundant riches, and sought refuge in wealth!”
NL Daily Devotion for Thursday, March 5, 2020
by R. Fergus Moir, Clergy Stuff
Sometimes it’s fun to read the Psalms and see all the “bad people” who are gonna get it. Like the ones the Psalmist is calling out in Psalm 52, the ones God is going to “break down forever; snatch and tear from their tents; and uproot from the land of the living.” YEAH! Get those people, God!
Except I’m those people, too. Oops. When I’m struggling in my life, no matter how often I have turned those struggles over to God, I continue to find myself pulled to other so-called solutions. If I only had enough money, I think, everything would be fine. So where, then, is my trust?
Throughout my life I have found that regardless of my financial situation (and it’s never been stellar), God continues to provide for me, to inspire and uplift, to heal and exhort. When I put my trust in money and material things, I am stressed out, frustrated, and full of self-pity. And it doesn’t solve anything. When I turn back to God and take refuge in God, those pointless feelings diminish, and I am freed to bring my attention back to what God would have me be and do.
Where am I trusting things other than God in my life?
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