[The Mayor]

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A Matter Of Perspective
March 15, 2011

One of my favorite stories is about the Texas rancher who was doing agricultural consulting for a farmer in Germany. He asked the German farmer about the size of his property, to which he replied, “About a mile square.” When the German asked the Texan about the size of his ranch, the rancher explained that if he got in his pick-up truck at dawn and drove until sunset he would still be on his ranch. Not to be outdone, the farmer replied, “I used to have an old truck like that!”

All joking aside, it’s important to have the right perspective. Unfortunately, the Christians in Laodicea had the wrong perspective about wealth (Rev. 3:14-22). By all appearances, they were rich. They had plenty of earthly goods and thought they needed nothing—not even Jesus. But Jesus had a different perspective. In spite of their material prosperity, He saw that they were “wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked” (v.17). So He invited them to become truly rich by seeking what only He could provide: purity, character, righteousness, and wisdom.

Let’s not make the Laodicean mistake. Instead, let’s keep our perspective right about what it means to be rich. True wealth is not measured by what you have but by who you are in Christ.

In Christ we’re rich beyond belief
With wealth the world cannot see;
We have new strength and character,
New righteousness and purity. —Sper

The poorest person is he whose only wealth is money.

Read: Revelation 3:14-22

[You] do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked. —Revelation 3:17

Bible in a year:
Deuteronomy 26-27; Mark 14:27-53

[WayzataJOHNN]

Beautiful, Mayor, and so true!
Thanks for the thoughtful and honest words of your message today.

[jaycee]

The poorest person is he whose only wealth is money."

AMEN! Thanks for our blessings today, Rus. And I liked the first paragraph too...LOL!

[geologist]

The American way has become one of success, wealth, prosperity, which is unfortunate, because it is in error.

Freedom, liberty, opportunity, was/is the source of America's greatness: because we were founded on the principles of God. Love, honesty, integrity, hard work, love your neighbor, help others, etc. Now we talk about Social Justice. and all the society is falling apart. God is left out of our daily life and we are deciding what is right for man, instead of using God's instructions as to how to live. Man has ever sought his own way rather than God's way. It is the broad way that many enter, and the way of it is death. Narrow is the way that leads to life and few there be that find it.
(God saved 8 people from the flood!)
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Matthew 7:13-14 (New King James Version)

The Narrow Way

13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.

14 Because[a] narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
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