WHERE PROSPERITY TAKES MY HEART
Today's reading: Hosea 8-14
"How prosperous Israel is--a luxuriant vine loaded with fruit! But the more wealth the people got, the more they poured it on the altars of their foreign gods. The richer the harvests they brought in, the more beautiful the statues and idols they built." Hosea 10:1 NLT
How easy it is, in comfortable times, to lean more on idols than on God.
To sit, like a child, with our 'toys and trinkets' around us feeling loved...
To consider all we have, and sigh with contentment...
To look over all the blessings we have in life, and busy ourselves counting them--not thanking the Blesser...
We tend to have feelings of entitlement, deserved-ness, inklings of all that we have being owed us.
In our most comfortable times, we tend to act like Israel did--pouring our wealth into our idols.
O God, please keep our eyes and hearts on you, not on our things!
