Thursday, February 13, 2014

God Thinking XLIV - Two Agendas 3

"God designed a plan to give you peace, joy, hope, financial security and personal fulfillment, and the world has an agenda too.
The world’s agenda is to:
Keep you strapped to the things it supplies and provides.
  • To keep you worried and discontent.
  • To keep you caught up in its glitz and glamour and over extended to its purveyors of things.
  • To keep your mind occupied with trivial and insignificant information. 
  • To keep you stressed out, in poor health, out of sorts and filled with all kinds of confusion.
  • To keep you busy doing anything that will keep you from seeking the face of God.
Instead of a patient, temperate, peaceable, humble, meek, kind, generous, charitable and loving character, nurtured and empowered by grace and mercy, hard work and good common sense, the world says:

Make your own rules

Do what feels good

Take what you want

The world says:
  • Get it now, don’t work for it and don’t wait for it
  • Get what you want by any means
  • Take the lions share
  • Harden yourselves against those who are without, they don’t deserve to have anything anyway
  • Don’t forgive, get your revengeBe rigid, stingy and angry and blame it on someone else.
  • Hold on to what you have with a clenched fist, and give away nothing, except your            leftovers or junk.
We live in a get what you want society and get it now, and if you can’t earn it, you can buy it - If you can’t afford it, you can charge it and if you can’t charge it, just fake it.  Which agenda are you following?"
 
Excerpt from God Thinking XLIV - Two Agendas by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2014

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