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Friday, November 2, 2007

Destiny vs. Materialism

Today we are sitting at a crossroads as humankind. We as a human race have achieved so much through the industrial revolution and the period that followed, but today, are we richer as a people? We have sacrificed individual worth and calling for globalized business systems, we have built business empires at the expense of marriages and children's lives and we have traded community for secluded isolated lives. Is this it? Well, if this is it then I am afraid we have missed the mark. We have missed the plot! You and I, each one of us, need to come to the point where we look at who we are and decide what is more important, earning a secure salary or pursuing the calling of God upon your life. Money and riches follows destiny, but our destiny is not money and riches. They are a product of a fruitful life aligned to the design of God. Look at your life today, are you doing that thing that makes you tick? Are you excited to get up every day and go to work? A small business with lower profits, but with peace and space, is more valuable than a life chasing after riches. Solomon said that a little bread with peace is better than riches that come with trouble. Riches is God's plan, but they are secondary and only a means to an end, they are not the end. Chew on this and respond if you want.

Till later
Skalla

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