"Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of thy God in vain."
Proverbs 30: 7-9
God will not give us everything we want, because then we may become too comfortable in ourselves and start to lose sight of the Lord. We may start to think that we do not need Him, or even subconsciously lose focus of Him and lose our passion for Him. We may think that when the time comes we would be able to resist it and keep our sights on Him; but you will be amazed how weak the human will is, how desperately wicked the human heart is, and how, even while knowing the possibility of wandering away beforehand, is still so prone to wander. You will be amazed how quickly the human heart can become proud and self-sufficient, while just moments before it had vouched to remain humble and broken before God.
Yet at the same time God will never leave us with nothing in our lives. God never takes something away unless He intends to replace it with something better. When God closes the door He opens another. And truly, even when everything else in life is stripped away, even those things that we held so dear, we will never be poor and left with nothing, because we have Him. The loving God who never fails and never lets us go. A perfect love that casts our all fear. It is tough to have God strip everything away for the sake of His plans for us; it is certainly not what we are used to, and we will struggle with it! But with the deep struggle comes the even deeper comfort of knowing that God will always be with us, His love always covers us, and He holds our lives in His hands.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of thy God in vain."
Proverbs 30: 7-9
God will not give us everything we want, because then we may become too comfortable in ourselves and start to lose sight of the Lord. We may start to think that we do not need Him, or even subconsciously lose focus of Him and lose our passion for Him. We may think that when the time comes we would be able to resist it and keep our sights on Him; but you will be amazed how weak the human will is, how desperately wicked the human heart is, and how, even while knowing the possibility of wandering away beforehand, is still so prone to wander. You will be amazed how quickly the human heart can become proud and self-sufficient, while just moments before it had vouched to remain humble and broken before God.
Yet at the same time God will never leave us with nothing in our lives. God never takes something away unless He intends to replace it with something better. When God closes the door He opens another. And truly, even when everything else in life is stripped away, even those things that we held so dear, we will never be poor and left with nothing, because we have Him. The loving God who never fails and never lets us go. A perfect love that casts our all fear. It is tough to have God strip everything away for the sake of His plans for us; it is certainly not what we are used to, and we will struggle with it! But with the deep struggle comes the even deeper comfort of knowing that God will always be with us, His love always covers us, and He holds our lives in His hands.
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