I walked out of my bedroom this morning around 6 and, to my shock, found a man quickly walking out the front door by my room! As I spoke with 911, I watched as he walked around the house back to his car, looking over his shoulder the whole way, and drove off.
The irony of this happening just after our study on the 8th commandment is not lost on me. In fact, I was reflecting this morning on how very unsurprised I was! I mean, this is the world we live in - a world of KLEPTOMANIA.
The same shifty secretive scheming of this man is in me as well. There is a hungering to take what does not belong to me, and my #1 victim is the Lord. How quickly I mistakenly believe that all my money, my things and my TIME belong to me. I believe they are mine to organize, to hoard, and to abuse. When this is my mentality, I feel anxious in my un-faith that the Lord will provide. I believe if they are my things, I am their sole keeper. That mistaken responsibility weighs heavy on me.
But there is good news in the face of my kleptomania! This is not my money, these are not my things and it is not my time! Instead of clinging to control in a world where CLEARLY (as experienced this morning) there's not much to be had, I can rest in peace that the Lord is the keeper and provider of all things.
I pray that the Lord would challenge me to loosen my grip on His possessions and teach me to steward what He has gifted me wisely and generously. Come to the light, he calls. Stop your scheming in the darkness, there is no peace to be found there.
Miriam -- the start of this post is gripping, startling, and disturbing. Am I write to think that some dude was in your house?? I don't want to take away from the great spiritual perspective that you shared today. Your encouragement to hold loosely to things you can't keep and aren't yours is great; however, I'm slightly unsettled that randos might be breaking and entering your place. Hope you're okay and decently sheltered from unfriendlies.
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ReplyDeleteYes! Definitely an unfriendly!!! We've got it all sorted out though. A bit unnerving, but nothing was stolen or broken. I think I scared him right as he had gotten in (you know me)
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ReplyDeleteOk....again great spiritual insights. But I'm definitely also praying that the stranger danger doesn't get so close to home... literally!!
Dang Mirm, perfect push ups making you look like a beast?!?! Scaring away bad guys!!! Thanks for the reminder to hold loosely the stuff God has asked us to steward in His name!
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