What Can Man Do to Me!

 

Hebrews 13:5-6; Keep your life free from love of money and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”  So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

Some of the biggest issues in the lives of Christian believer’s is their financial instability.  Everybody has someone within their families who are struggling or having a difficult time some way.  Whether it is in their relationships with their sister, brother, mother, father or child – there isn’t one of us that doesn’t know someone that isn’t going through some kind of turbulence in their lives.  It’s a condition of a continual curve ball after curve ball being thrown your way without knowing how to duck or dive to miss it in life. 

Financial woes, if not tackled with an immediate solution, can cause the believer to lose faith in their ability to believe God to get them out of their mess.  You begin to believe that every Christian has these kinds of problems, and yes, this is true. But it doesn’t have to begin and end there.  God has made it very clear that we should keep our lives free from the love of money and be content with what we have. Now this is not for believers to believe that you should be ok with living a mediocre kind of lifestyle, where you live paycheck to paycheck and say well “ as long as I have food on the table, I’m ok.”

We are to be thankful and grateful for all the many blessings God has bestowed upon us, His children, but we don’t have to sit back and say to ourselves, poverty is where it’s at.  God wants glory’s in us being bountifully blessed and filled to overflowing with His blessings and goodness.  For He has already declared that He will never leave us nor forsake us.  He wants us to get it – He’s not going anywhere, it’s up to us to live according to His plan and will for our lives. Nobody can touch us as long as we are with God.

Joshua 1:9; Have I not commanded you?  Be strong and courageous.  Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

This verse is perplexing for many Christians, who have a hard time trusting in that last sentence. They try to envision God standing right beside them.  He is literally with us at all times because He lives on the inside of us.  But we have a hard time getting out of our own way.  There are times when we become so used to doing things on our own that we don’t think to slow down and ask God if we’re doing it His way. 

Many times it’s not because we don’t care, but more so out of ignorance or we haven’t been taught anything different. Fortunately, we have the perfect instruction manual on how to get our life right, no questions asked – It’s all in the Word. God gave us His Word so that we can maximize the most out of this life. And if that wasn’t enough, He gave us His son so that we could live and have the most abundance life has to offer.

Psalms 91 tells us that in Him we can put our trust in, our Lord is our refuge and fortress. There is no way we can lose out if we put all our trust in God. You want to make the most out of where you are in life, whether it’s on the job or in your family, the best result is realizing God is proud of your contribution into His Kingdom. He doesn’t require a lot from us, only to keep Him first and to love Him with all of our heart, all of our mind and all of our soul! This isn’t hard to do and it’s not asking too much of us.