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Today is Sunday June 20, 2010 and we are reading through the Bible in a year. Today's message comes from the reading of the Book of Job, chapters 21-24. If you would like to read the chapters along with us here online you can Click Here to read them or copy & paste this link onto your browser: http://www.readytofollow.com/bible-june-20


Today's Message: Heavenly Treasures

As Christians we can get pretty discouraged at times when we do everything we can to live a godly life and face one struggle after another while those who continue to live wickedly prosper. It's not always easy to lead a Christian life, there are all kinds of temptations around us, but in the long run it will all be worth it because our treasures will be far more glorious when we get to heaven. “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” - Matthew 6:19-21. We can not take money or possessions with us when we die. While the world strives on getting the biggest and best before they die, Christians strive on the promises of God and knowing that the biggest and best is yet to come. As Christians, we can prosper, if we keep our eyes on Jesus we already have more than the richest, most powerful person here on earth.

As Job was once again defending himself the question came out, why are the wicked mighty in power? “Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them....They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.” - Job 21:7-9,13-16. Usually the most powerful people in the world care less about God, they feel as though they have everything they need so they do not need Him. When they die they die and that is it. However, God is still in control, He makes use of the prosperity of the wicked to serve His own purpose, while it ripens them for ruin. They might prosper for a season, but in the end they will fall.

The key to Job's singleness of heart and ultimate victory was his conviction that obedience to God's Word was more important than life itself. “Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.” - Job 23:8-12. Job had the utmost confidence in the wisdom and love of God. Job believed that, since God was faithful to His Word, He also would be faithful to His obedient servant. He believed that although God seemed nowhere to be found, his faith did not rest in his fears and feelings, but in His Word. In every generation there are faithful Christians who have learned that only by reading all of the Word of God can they know His will in order to walk in His ways. They have the utmost confidence that His Word is their source of true strength and the answer to all critics.

Some have assumed they were a Christian because they were a member of a church, but they have not experienced the transforming power of God's Word. Like Judas, they may talk like a Christian and yet they do not desire Christ as Lord of their lives. To have a Bible, but no desire to know how God would have them live is useless. Until they repent of their sins and accept Christ as both Savior and Lord, the Bible has little value to them, therefore they feel no need for it. “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” - Colossians 2:6-8. Take a look at all these famous preachers and evangelists, they claim to know God. Do they tell you the truth or are they just sugar coating the egos of those who want their version of the truth to remain prosperous? The only way to know the truth is by knowing God's Word.

All who have accepted Christ as their Savior are precious to God, we are His special people because we have accepted His treasure. “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.” - I Peter 2:9,10. Since we are God's people we have nothing to worry about, He will provide for us, protect us, and more importantly we will walk the streets of gold to find our mansion waiting for us. “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” -John 14:1-3. Praise God!

Enjoy the rest of your day/night and have an awesome week.
God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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