Quote:
Originally Posted by missourimary
I have heard quite a bit about prosperity from my brothers and sisters in the last years. They are "blessed" with a new house (and huge mortgage), they are "blessed" with new cars (and car payments and insurance hikes when the old cars ran fine), they are "blessed" with more clothes than they count, all bought on credit, for which they need more closet space and a larger house.
They have tried to encourage me in my little house with a little yard and my used clothes and old car that "God will supply all our needs..." I have begun answering, that, yes, He does. But what I need and what I want are two very different things. (I don't want their debt, though!)
Really, what do we need? Physically, food, shelter, and clothes. Do we have those? We have much more than we realize.
|
Amen and amen.
So very true. I talk to my kids about these things. I tell them that it always seems that we humans refuse to learn our lessons from others. We have to trial and error it ourselves. But if they can learn from the mistakes I have made and pass up the try it and find out dad was right anyway phase they can really make some good time.
If I had known then what I know now how much farther along would I be?