Every day is full of challenges. And every people have their own difficulties to deal with. In short, no one is exempted from that life’s quest. Some may have financial issue and some may have relationship issue. The financial issue is very common and it’s the easiest problem one can have. The relationship issues are those issues by which your mutual relations or your emotional association with other people is at stake or could be lacking. Relationship issue for me is the most difficult problem because you cannot easily resolve it and it involves emotional distress.
---I remember, Reuel and I had a small talk and he asked me if I have to choose what could be our next problem if money would not be a problem for us after all. He enumerated the possible problems that we are about to face in the future which includes our relationship as husband and wife, our relationship towards our children which is a common problem among parents most especially when our children reach the teenage years or another wave of financial problems. Then I answered, that I would rather choose to have money problem.
---So, who says life is easy? Our challenges may not be the same with other people but there is one common among all of us and that is each and every one of us will experience hardships in life no matter what. King Solomon, who was the wisest man who ever lived on earth, writes in the book of Ecclesiastes that:
---Ecclesiastes 1:8 KJV:
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“All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”
---Ecclesiastes 1:14 KJV:
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“I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”
---Therefore, all things we do here is useless if we do not do the sole duty of our existence in this earth which is:
---Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 KJV:
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“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”
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Thus, I and Reuel never have a single fight over money matters since we got married because we know that it doesn’t bring any good to our relationship. It is just vanity (useless) to fight over material things. We look at money as a consumable thing that might bring some sort of satisfaction to ourselves but it is a worthless cause of contention. And yes, we’re one of the millions of people who have financial difficulties and we sometimes feel sad because we cannot buy what we want, do what we want, nor go wherever we want to. But I think it’s a matter of setting your mind to look into another angle of your life in which you are blessed. In that, you become contented for whatever you have. In our part, we truly love each other and we’re building a wonderful family. To think of that, makes us grateful unto the Lord.
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One time, my parents commented that we look so happy and contented in the midst of our financial crisis. According to them, it seems that we’ve been somewhat brain-washed by our Pastor (they’re opposing to our tithes giving and offering) that money is not important. If we would only read the Word of God, it says giving is the way to God’s blessings. And only in giving that God asks us to prove Him. It is in the book of Malachi 3:10, which says:
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“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”
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And in the book of Luke 6:38, which says:
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“Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”
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I still remember, what my mom have said, that money is what makes one happy. You can do all the things you want when you have money. I just smile at them and pray that they would understand and experience the happiness and contentment that we have and, that they would have the same eternal security that we have through our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us look what was written in the book of Matthew 6: 19-21:
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“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
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When you have learned not to worry over the things that you don’t have, you will start enjoying your life. We do not have to worry for what we need because God knows all our needs. It is written in the book of Matthew 6:25-26, that says:
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“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”
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It is true that worrying about the future does not help us. We only need to trust God for everything. And trusting God is difficult to exercise but once we’re into it, we’ll have a better disposition in life because we know that everything happens to us has a purpose and it is according to God’s plan.
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I would like to include here one of my favorite song that I usually play:
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