God is Using Us: Every Favor We Receive Should Make us More Earnest in Doing the Will of God!

 

His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord. 

- 2 Chronicles 17:6

It is so true that often as God gives us more favor, and we obtain more of this world like money, power, carnal desires, etc. We then lose sight of God and what His mission is for us. We have to be careful of this. We still need God and He can keep us in check with what is right and to do His will. Today we see so many elected, governments, and powers that be that use and abuse their powers, so much sin, they cheat, steal, lie, and are corrupt and do so much evil and wicked, hurting people, and themselves and their honor. God lifts us up, but when it goes to our heads, it brings us down! We see this today a great deal in our societies, it is very prevalent unfortunately. 

The Mornings With God App today said, "There is a bad lifting up and a good lifting up. Some people are made vain by prosperity. The temptation for us when first called to do any work, if we accomplish it with some measure of success, is to become proud. It ought to make us humble to learn that God is using us, is entrusting us with something of His to minister to others, and is blessing the work which we are doing for Him. Every favor we receive should make us more earnest in doing the will of God. Too often, as money comes in, and prosperity increases, people get so absorbed in these new gifts of God that the Giver Himself fades out of their vision. We should never forget that every new kindness which comes to us is a new evidence of God’s thought for us, and that because of it we should love Him the more and devote ourselves the more earnestly to His work. If only we thus see the hand of God in every new mercy and goodness that comes to us, our hearts will be lifted up in the ways of the Lord."

I love reading the Mornings with God App prayers each day. They have so much great advice we need to heed and follow. Most importantly, it is Jesus we need to follow and reflect. We need God in our lives. God gave us Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us, to follow, as our example and a model to use to follow and reflect in our life's journey. This is what we need to do and not lose sight of . We need to be grateful, pray, count our blessings, and remain joyful in the Lord always! We need to stay positive, loving, and full of joy! We need to never lose sight of God and His will be done in our lives and to keep Him first always!