I was reading Psalm 50 this morning and for the first time it struck me...
When we work for an income then we believe it is ours and we now have full say on what to do with it. We give Father our obligatory amount as an “offering” and the rest is ours. In actual fact, it still belongs to Father as everything belongs to Him.
It is like when a parent gives their todler money to buy a birthday present for the parent, as their child has no power to "earn" it. The child believes that they gave the gift from their own selves.
In actual fact, the parent gave the child the money so it was the parent's money. The only real impact the child has it to make a decision on what to do with the money they were given and then to spend it wisely. But ultimately, it is still the parent's money.
Hmm, or should I say "ultimately, it is still Father's money"???
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Rev 18:4+5 came to mind this morning. It says:
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not be a partner in her sins and receive her plagues; for her sins (crimes, transgressions) have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her wickedness and crimes [for judgment]".
I have two questions on that:
1. What does it mean to come out of her? Is it a physical move, a spiritual break, a break of dependence, etc.?
2. When should we come out? Is it only at that given time of the troubles or should we start breaking our dependencies earlier?
An almost finished OOM I was working on today (it's going to be a printable game ✔️),
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