What the bible teaches about God’s priorities

[jennifer_bloom]

My dad complains constantly about how I’m a failure because all I have is a bachelors degree and I never applied to grad school and I do not have my own house or a rich husband and child. He never stops yelling at me and condemning me and looking excuses to judge and slander me because he is embarrassed that I’m his daughter since I’m not a doctor, an engineer or a corporate lawyer.

When I tried to write a book, I was jealous of a show off I knew who had written 17 books in 7 years because she always did what I wanted to do and did it way better than me, and than bragged about it to everybody in sight and people listened to her and befriended her and helped her and admired her but if I tried to get help or even respect and consideration from these people, I was ignored. I tried so hard to do at least one thing well that she could not do or do it better than her and regardless of how hard I tried, I just could not do it.

And than I realized something, God was not helping me with my career in an obvious way, because God wanted to perfect my heart and mind before He worked on my professional profile. Like when Jesus cleansed the paralytic and removed His sins, before he helped him walk, or when Jesus said, you have to get your relationship with God in order before you work on building an economic advantage and the failure to prize God over wealth, resulted in death, either spiritual death or physical death, and also that God wants you to serve Him and make sure you help others, before He enables you to and gives you the resources you need to help yourself.

And I realized the reason God had not blessed my career was that God wanted to bless my salvation and psychological transformation first and once my heart and mind and soul and spirit was properly dealt with, God would also give me the other things I had been asking for and probably more than what other people received.

[Anonymous]

Nice Mytake

[Opinion Owner]

Thanks for MHO

[smølf]

"when Jesus said, you have to get your relationship with God in order before you work on building an economic advantage"

Where did Jesus ever say that?

[jennifer_bloom]

I’m paraphrasing the story of the rich fool when he says all suffer loss who collect worldly wealth but are not rich towards God

[smølf]

Luke 12:16-21 New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised:
16 Then he told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced abundantly. 17 And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?” 18 Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” 20 But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” 21 So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich towards God.’

This does NOT support "you have to get your relationship with God in order before you work on building an economic advantage". In fact, the key message is to NOT to build an economic advantage, since it is futile. It said "You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?", gating wealth is pointless and we should ONLY get our relationship with God in order, not before, but instead of gathering great wealth.

So the scriptures you are referring to, do not support the claim or interpretation.

[OddBeMe]

Seems odd that so many psychopaths and rapists have a “blessed” career. Did god do that, as well?

Your fathers a prick, Fyi, got that same issue with my mother.

[he-takes-a-part]

Who told you this?