- In Psalm 106 in the Authorized Version, the psalmist said, “He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul”. The psalmist made this comment based upon the story in Numbers 11. It is a solemn lesson for us — for we need to be constantly warned about the peril brought by greed.
- Greed is a bottomless pit. When you have but ten thousand, you’d want to have hundred thousand. But when you have a hundred thousand, you’d wish for a million. And one day you may actually have a million, and you’ll find that you’re not actually happier. You’ll either be wishing for many more millions, or you’ll have come to the realization that adding more zero’es to your net worth has brought nothing but zero to your net happiness. All that money cannot buy you more rest, more peace, more joy, more security, more love…
- In fact, all the truly precious eternal things in life money cannot buy.
- The first heavenly blessing is that of being chosen. When did that happen? It happened many long years ago. It happened before the creation of the world. This blessing is not only the first, it is the greatest. What can be compared with the fact that we’re chosen. We did not choose Him, but He chose us. We do not have anything in us that’s worthy of His choosing, but yet He chose us.
- He did not just choose us, then leave us alone. He chose us and then He laid out a plan for our life. This is the meaning of predestination: He predetermined our destiny. This predestination speaks of meaning for everything that happens to us. Why does something happen to us? It is because we have enrolled in God’s School of Sonship, and each and everything that happens to us is a part of this great curriculum. They are there to shape us, to form us, to instill into us the very character and ability deserving of a Son of God.
- Thirdly, we’re loved. He loves and accepts us unconditionally. “Accepted in the One He loved” (KJV). Our God chose us, predestined us to be His Sons, and accepted and loved us just as we are.
