TUESDAY NOVEMBER 12
“Seek
his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.” Lk 12:31 NIV
HOW
MUCH IS ENOUGH? (2)
At what point does need become greed? One
author writes: “Rarely does a person wake up and say, “I’ve been living for an
ego trip…I’m going to get rid of the big car and the fancy sailboat and go live
in the slums…working with the poor. God deals with us individually. What may be
okay for some, isn’t necessary for others…When Pastor Renny Scott began
wrestling with this issue…he said, “I just couldn’t resolve the tension of
living in a peaceful bedroom community while hell on earth was all around me in
the form of hunger and poverty.’ He went to Africa with World Vision, which was
the beginning of involvement with the needs of others. Next, he moved into the
inner city…That was the second step. Then he took a church of fifty which met
in a school cafeteria. When a deacon suggested they give the entire Sunday
offering to missions, Scott swallowed hard—because his salary was included!
Eventually he and his wife came to grips with their life style and did
something I’ve challenged many to do…cap your lifestyle and say, ‘This much and
no more’; and everything above that was given away…The little church grew into
a body of 1,800 people who matched dollars for buildings with dollars for
missions. Today they’ve taken on the challenge of helping homeless people find
affordable housing. Scott said, ‘I had to pause and ask myself what I’d want to
be doing if Christ returned today. And I found myself answering Matthew chapter
24 and 25…to take my talents and invest them [where the need was].’”
Taken
from the Word for you Today devotional
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