Comfort.

I just read Matthew 6. Before I read this I had watched a movie with my husband. Called Beyond Borders. After watching this movie I toiled in my mind of what I have read in God's truth in the far past. I had to get out Strong's Strongest, not knowing what word I was searching for. Then I said to myself, hm mm. How bout I look it up the faster way on blueletterbible.org. So I did, by then I knew what I was looking for, the word treasures. Treasures have been on my mind a lot the past several months. With moving and downsizing. So I typed in treasures here on earth. No exact matches, but 3 verse matches for the words treasures and earth. So I looked. The verse that stuck out in my mind that I saw was Matthew 6:19. I opened my Bible to Matthew Chapter 6. Read the whole chapter, it is not long. How the Lord is stirring in me right now, I can not explain.

Matthew 6:19-21 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.

How spoiled are we? So spoiled it makes us want more than we need, when we have so much. I can not tell you enough how good we have it, where we live, in our wicked nation. It takes little to desensitize us, but much more to open our eyes to truth. Our children complain about wants or boredom, while children in other nations are thankful for another day, while they watch their families and friends die from starvation or the civil wars that run through their cities.

We are such a selfish nation, so selfish it is going to send us to economic blowup, even worse, national condemnation from God. It blows me away how the wicked control politics with their money, while the good get beaten down because they are poor. We live in a monopoly. Our soldiers die for a freedom that is dying itself. Our country is so selfish they have to ban God out of our schools, and public places just so they don't get offended. Whose more offended, them or us. If this is a free country, God's truth should be allowed in every corner of our schools and public places just as much as sex, drugs, and moral corruption are. Everywhere we look, we see billboards, magazines, newspapers, t-shirts, media, movies, vehicles, hospitals, and even churches advertising for something that is sex, drug, or immoral driven.

Are we so blind? We are. While I am picking out paint colors for making our little trailer a home for my family. I am being hardened to how good we have it in our little trailer. I am not saying that making a house into a home is bad. I am saying that we have so much to be thankful for. It is so easy to lose track of the bigger picture of life itself, and what it is meant for. Our primary purpose. What can we do to take advantage of the freedoms we do still have now? We have to fight for what is right. How do we fight? Well, it will look different for every person. For every person it will be at a different level of magnitude. For me, I have to help my husband raise little warriors into big warriors for our Lord. For someone else, it may be taking a bullet to the head for standing up for what is right in the sight of the Lord.

I have been in sin, for allowing emotion and things to get in the way of my primary purpose. My primary purpose is to give glory and honor to God and to serve Him forever and to take joy in Him.

This post has been very radically driven from different points and examples. But they all come together to fit a bigger puzzle. The bigger puzzle? Only God knows what that is right now.

What I have learned through all these puzzle pieces, that my heart needs to stay in heaven and that I am a selfish person who needs to become much more selfless.

Matthew 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Everything that I need. The Lord has already provided. He has given me the tools that I need to survive this wretched world. All I have to do is to be selfless and to use them. I don't have to have a degree by the worlds standards to do what needs to be done. But, I do have to use the brain that the Lord has given me to accomplish His tasks. They are basic. I know what I am. I am a woman, created for man, a wife to Patrick, I complete him, (his helper,lover, encourager, and friend) I am mother to Kelsie, Lillian, and Colin, I am to love them and to train them up in the Lord, I am a daughter, sister and friend, I am to shine Christ likeness to others. What a huge role to fulfill. But the greatest news of all is ---- I can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.)

Side note: I do believe that the creation in our world is beautiful, the earth itself. So when I referred to the wretched or wicked, I refer to the sin that has poisoned our air.