Are you in a financial COMA?
Are you in a financial COMA? You are in a financial COMA if Messiah Jesus is not your answer to these questions:
- WHO againstcontrol your life
- WHO EITHERwns the money and possessions you use?
- For whom METERmanage them?
- who are you for INresponsible?
Let’s look at the first element, againstcheck. An Oxford dictionary definition is that control is “the power to direct”. Do you have the “power to direct” your life? Do you think you are in control of daily events, your income level, and next week’s agenda? Think again if you think so. Our problem is that we don’t know what awaits us, but we act as if we do. We think the future will look like the present, so we borrow and plan to pay off the debt. But, as a former colleague would say, the future is not what it used to be! Things turn out differently; we can’t pay our debts, so we get discouraged and borrow even more. The Apostle James puts it this way in James 4:13-15:
Come now, you who say: “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and we will spend a year there and do business and profit.” However, you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a while and then vanishes. Instead, you should say, “The Lord willing, we will live and also do this or that.”
An essential foundation for managing God’s money is realizing that God is in control. We may not give him control of our lives, but still, he controls the universe. He is working around each person. He never stops working.
When he was young, while David tended his father’s sheep, God was at work and wanted him as king of Israel. This was not David’s plan. He simply listened and responded to God’s call. Similarly, God may be at work in your life today, but rush sickness it is distracting you, so you cannot hear His voice. You are in a hurry trying to direct and control events that you cannot control. Break; listen, so that you can hear the voice of Jesus; then answer him. He created you. He loves you and invites you into a personal relationship. We read in 1 Timothy 2:3-6:
“… God our Savior… wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is only one God, and only one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ, who gave himself as a ransom for all”.
Next time, I’ll look at the other parts of the COMA. May his peace abound in you!
Copyright (c) 2004, 2010, Michel A. Bell