"I Have Rejoiced In,"----- What?

"I have rejoiced in your laws as much as in riches." (Psalm 119:14, NLT)

The first reaction could be, "Really?"  But I can say in all honesty a resounding, "Yes," not because I am some wonderfully "spiritual" person, but because of the event of the summer of 1970.  No amount of money could have done what Jesus did and continues to do for me.  

No amount of, "riches," could have done, "I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry.  He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings."  And how did and does Jesus do this for me?  "....In Your laws...," i.e., His indwelling Presence and in His Words.  Because of Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ, I can say with Jesus, "I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore.  Amen."  Money cannot do this.  Only Jesus can do this.  Jesus said, "Because I live, you shall live also."  It is not, "Because you have money, you shall live."  The only thing money can do for the human race is prolong the dying process.  Modern medical science can replace organs in the human body; it cannot replace death.

You are working today, whether it is in an office, plant, school, or you are receiving a retirement income from that work.  That job brought/brings you, "riches," (money).  What all the work in the world cannot do, however, what hitting a $300,000,000.00 lottery cannot do is, "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."  The promises of our Lord Jesus Christ in this passage cannot be bought with, "riches," of any kind.  "Peace I leave with you," a, troubled-free heart, and a heart not enslaved to fear comes not by work, "lest any man should boast," but only by and in Jesus Christ.  I guess the human race needs an evaluation of its "work ethic."

Father, in Jesus' Name, though my life may not always reflect it, You are My life.  Amen. ********************

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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

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Hebrews 12:2