Some people think that God\u2019s sole purpose is to save their soul, help them become as morally upright and as spiritually mature as possible, and one day take them to Heaven to live with Him. And in a sense that\u2019s true. <\/p>\n
But here\u2019s what isn\u2019t<\/i> true\u2014that God is not<\/i> interested in your job, your health, your relationships, your finances, or your dreams and goals because somehow those things are carnal, worldly, and temporal. When you think like that, you \u2018spiritualise\u2019 every promise you read in Scripture, and when you pray, you believe the only thing God wants to do is help you become more spiritual. <\/p>\n
Let\u2019s look into the Scriptures and see what God really says about this. The truth is, in fact, the exact opposite<\/i> (see Joshua 1:8; Isaiah 48:17; 3 John 2). By maintaining that God plays no part in your achieving career success or financial security, you\u2019re contradicting His Word. And when you do that, you\u2019re on dangerous ground, because you\u2019re making yourself<\/i> the sole source of your success, and the Bible calls that\u2014pride! <\/p>\n
What Jesus taught is this: \u2018Do not worry, saying, \u201cWhat shall we eat?\u201d or \u201cWhat shall we drink?\u201d or \u201cWhat shall we wear?\u201d For after all these things the Gentiles [who do not serve God] seek\u2026 For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew 6:31\u201333 NKJV) So let\u2019s be clear: God wants you to succeed in life for the right reasons, and He wants you to have all<\/i> the things<\/i> you need to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some people think that God\u2019s sole purpose is to save their soul, help them become as morally upright and as spiritually mature as possible, and one day take them to Heaven to live with Him. And in a sense that\u2019s true. But here\u2019s what isn\u2019t true\u2014that God is not interested in your job, your health, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}