-God promises to
bless us, but is part of our portion, apart from walking and talking with
Him, to take risks with faith that all will work out, like the positive
thinking people tell us?
Positive thinking is better
than negative thinking, but does thinking positively mean we should take
risks with assurance that our decision will work out ok?
Many tell others today that
"unless you take risks, you will never get ahead". However, some risks
can be dangerous.
One may
lose money and security and maybe even a relationship over it.
The cocky,
brash,
bravado.and
myopic
approach can often get one into trouble. So, avoid being hasty:.(*).(*).(*).(*).
Insurance companies got rich
not by taking risks, but through intelligently eliminating them.
Changing from your status
quo should be done only after careful consideration and prayer over
a sufficient amount of time to remove any
fear regarding changes proposed. As a general guideline, forget the
idea the first time. If it comes to mind again, give it consideration.
Forget it again! If it again comes to mind this third time, then it is
definitely something you should look deeply into to do.
-Is it a sign that God is
with someone if they are prosperous?.James
2:3..Jeremiah
12:1 "Righteous are you, O Lord, when I plead with you. Yet let me
talk with you of your judgments. Wherefore does the way of the wicked prosper?
Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?"
Job asks about wicked people
prospering:.Job
21:7-15.
The psalmist Asaph
asks the same thing:.Psalms
73:3-12.
And what's their end?.Psalms
73:16,17.
The wicked are those perverse
ones who are run by their evil
influenced egos:.Psalms
11:2 "For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow
upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.".Now
you know you're not paranoid
when you think 'they are
out to get you'. Ha ha!
Whether trials
or prosperity abounds in one's life, God is
working what He wills at any particular time with
everyone an overall view towards the individual character development
He wants each of us to
progress in. God causes both the good and the evil to prosper; Job
9:24. God darn well does what He decides to and to whom and whenever
He wants to:.Psalms
73:3.
-What is the "prosperity
of fools"?.Proverbs
1:32
The prosperity of fools refers
to those who look at others who have money and figure that they "have it
made", wishing that they too could be in this position of envy,
failing the realization that accumulations in the physical life are only
for it and efforts taken from spiritual pursuits to acquire such accumulations
only produce temporary security:.Matthew
6:19,20.
