TEMPORAL OR ETERNAL:
The ongoing daily choices
I Corinthians 1:27: “For God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty…”
How can I long for a home I have never seen? Heaven is a place my soul will be for Eternity, as long as I remain on the narrow path and keep my heart and repentance clear with God.
As a sensitive soul and one who has lived almost 70 years on this beautiful but vastly troubled planet, I often get the message that the sensitive, the "weak" by human standards, the "low achievers" (also by human standards), are not wanted by the powers that be on the earth. People of my temperament and nature are shoved off to the side in disgust, not wanted or not needed by the great and vaunted, who seem to love themselves more than life itself. Arrogance appears to be the lifeblood of at least some "high achievers."
Achievers of what? How much can they take along when their life ends? Even Queen Elizabeth, with her immense wealth, jewels, properties, influence, could take only her spirit, her name written in the Lamb's Book of Life, when she departed this world. That would certainly be enough for me! I am not against achieving something but I am very much against pressure on me to do the same. Let me alone, let me be!
When I was growing up, there was a phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses", and this phrase seemed silly and ultimately not satisfying. Who are these Jones people? Why would I care to keep up with them??? It involved doing surface stuff to one's house to compete with a neighbor. WHY???
Since I have never owned a home, I cannot relate to competing for surface junk. I have just been grateful to have a basic and decent roof over my head, clothing, food and the basics covered. So much "achieving" seems to be pushed by competition and with people you do not even like. I 100% cannot relate a bit to that. I am the polar opposite to competitive.
I crave quiet, peace, solitude, freedom from financial pressure. I am no longer in debt, I do not rob Peter to pay Paul, as I did that awful run long ago and decided to never do that again. Not a good plan of action, misery all day. I have had NO debt, since 2002! I am happy to have the basics covered and to be grateful for simple things and a simple life. All the surface stuff is just that, SURFACE and not a bit can be taken along on my final journey, whenever that is.
I long to simply encourage the discouraged, what God has called me to do. I do this through my written words and through my simple actions. I know the despair of the poor and the sensitive and flattened. I fully and completely sympathize.
God, help me to refine this, to learn to "abase and to abound" as the Apostle Paul exhorted. Abase means to be satisfied with what you have at any given moment, even when you do not have much and the same when you have plenty. Stuff is temporal, God and His Son are Eternal.
Wendy Williams 9-17-2022