Today’s Scripture Reading:

When I was beleaguered and bitter,
      totally consumed by envy,
   I was totally ignorant, a dumb ox
      in your very presence.
   I'm still in your presence,
      but you've taken my hand.
   You wisely and tenderly lead me,
      and then you bless me.
You're all I want in heaven!
      You're all I want on earth!
   When my skin sags and my bones get brittle,
      God is rock-firm and faithful.
   Look! Those who left you are falling apart!
      Deserters, they'll never be heard from again.
   But I'm in the very presence of God—
      oh, how refreshing it is!
   I've made Lord God my home.
      God, I'm telling the world what you do!   Psalm 73:21-28 (The Message Bible)

 

How often we get jealous over what someone else seems to have.   You really don’t know much about that person over there—whether the person used to have more or not.  All it seems right now is that the person has a lot, good things, good life, good health even.  But you really don’t know.  And yet you, as a person of faith, can get bitter, even angry at God, asking, “Why have You not blessed me like that?”

Today’s reading from the Psalm is good news for you.  Even in the middle of that kind of thinking, God is right there for you.  God may be there for that other person, too, but you do not know that.  What you do know is that God is there for you, holding your hand, right there by your side, being your strength even when all else seems to be falling apart!   And then your thoughts turn to all that God has done and is now doing for you!   God is all you need in heaven, and all you could ever want on the earth. Amen.

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