Oh I love James

Over the past year we have wavered back and forth over where we should live (even though we just moved), and me feeling like we just keep out growing our homes. Truthfully I do struggle with this. I keep telling myself, there are people out there with more kids than me that live in a much smaller home than me. I should be thankful and appreciative of the roof over my head and stop pursing bigger and better dreams. Why do I struggle with this when I know that in God's timing He will provide for our family; He always has so why do I have doubt in my current situation. I heard someone once say that God knows the timing and the birth order of your children. He already knows how many kids you going to have before you decide to stop, and He knows exactly when to open the door for opportunities for your family.

So I go to the lovely James passage:

But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position; and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.

For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.

James 1: 9-11

I feel like writing this makes me feel like a spoiled lil girl who is whinning about her humble circumstance ( how rediculous right, my circumstances are not bad). But really I think that people read this and immidiatly associate these verses with the brother in humble circumstances (the poor living on the streets) and the rich ( those living in million dollar mansions) But wake up... this scripture is about each and every one of us. It is about us in this world. It is about our earthly possessions and status of this world.

God wants you to place your reason for living on what matters to Him and what will last forever, our eternity with Him.

So what do I take from this,

Stop spending so much time wondering and worrying about when I get my wood flooring, my new counter tops, and even where my 4th child's room ( who isn't even conceived yet) is going to be considering I am already maxed out on bedrooms.

Instead of all these concerns of earthy possessions, I need to have concern for my neighbors; for the moms I sit with at dance every Monday. I need to have concern for the exact same young woman that checks me out at Target every week. I need to have concern for everyone; that I am representing the One True God, that I am sharing with them the awesome power, freedom and Grace of our Lord.

That needs to be my concern.