It's A Matter Of The Heart!

Thursday's Devotion (1-20-05)

"Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right." Proverbs 16:8 (KJV)

Yesterday we talked about being content, we're not going to go too far off of that subject today. Let's talk about how God, is content with us. The saved are really a small amount of people compared the unsaved, actually a very small number. You could say that, "God, wants more!" but He won't take more if it isn't righteousness. God, sees the small amount of people with righteousness as better or of greater value or quality than a great amount without right. You can walk into a building with thousands upon thousands of unrighteous people and God, sees you as being more valuable than them all put together. Why? Because as the grass of the field, they're here today and gone tomorrow... the righteous will live forever!

Another way to see this scripture is like this: Let's say that I lead a group of people and there aren't very many of those people, but they are righteous people. Let's say that I want to expand and make my group bigger and I start to pick up unrighteous people just for bigger numbers. What's going to happen to my group? It's going to lose quality and the righteous that were in it will either leave or become unrighteous like the others and everything will go down hill. Some of you want more riches, but do you want the great amount of unrighteousness that often comes with it? A little bit of righteousness is more than a whole lot of unrighteousness!

I can't help, but to think of the righteous woman who gave all that she had which was very little. Everyone else gave a whole lot of money, but it was nothing compared to what they had and the woman came and gave all that she had which was very little. God, looked upon the hearts and seen a righteous woman that day who was greater than the others there. The thing that she did would seem small to us, but to God, it is of more value than the things many of us do which to us are greater. "And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called [unto him] his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all [they] did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, [even] all her living." Mark 12:41-44 (KJV) She gave little, but her little was righteousness and it is better than what the others gave! This woman who gave such little is now in God's Kingdom with a great spot! Some of the others who gave a lot... may not even be there at all. It's all a matter of the heart it's not about how much or how big... it's about the righteousness involved in it that comes from our hearts!

Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this message and for all things. Please forgive us of all our sins and we forgive all those who've wronged us. Please help us to be righteous and not unrighteous. Make us great in your Kingdom... we may not have much to offer, but we give you ourselves and we know that our reward will be great. In Jesus, name. A-men!

God bless!

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