When tasked with writing my thoughts on this statement… I rallied to it!
And You Are?
When presented with pictures that evoke abundance in two very different forms, luxury cars in front of an extravagant home (proposed as bad) or a property filled garden with a small home (proposed as good) telling, not suggesting, what I need, I feel the need to rail back (on the inside), “And who are you? And who are you that determines what I need? You don’t know me.”
It is my thinking that “we are all made in His image” is not a mantra for cult or communal behavior. It is also my thinking that life is not a one-size-fits-all, or even most. Back in the day, I lived as I thought when as a single mama, I chose to live away from the government grid while I worked to pay my way through trade school and while I raised my children to excel in our circumstances by choosing what they would bring in to their lives.
Wealth in itself is not evil. God uses and chooses whom He blesses and how he blesses. A horde of luxury cars does not denote that “a deal with the devil was made” anymore that I can be assured that no chemicals was used to grow this lush garden.
I would choose neither of these massive amounts of abundance for my life. And yet, I count on those with these cars to continue to create the jobs that sustain others in their local and larger communities just as I hope that those with this massive produce photograph sell, share, and donate to provide the foods while I enjoyed a career of providing power to both.
Because I abide by 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12, “and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you, so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.” It is a given for me and mine, that as God is our source. He supplies all that I need. Always has, always will. And I will not rail back but walk away shaking my head with a simple “meh?” ~Denise Rand Dahlheimer
and by the way... and why is this Prophetic? Because this perceived notion of what we need is making itself known again
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