What’s ours is ours, and what’s not is not.
Ho, that’s no mystery. Rather, it seems obvious. However, how many of us have looked at a 60” television with envy and gone home with plans running through our heads figuring how to get it into our house?
Or those shoes, red, with spiked heels, Gucci or Ferragamo, your choice, ladies. Six bills to walk out the door, and we start turning over every leaf in our trousseau to find the extra cash. Where can we come up with those outrageous funds?
How far are we willing to go?
What about people? That new busboy at our favorite restaurant. His back muscles flex, and we feel our hearts melt. Or the new tenant in the upstairs apartment. Does she really wear silk hose on those long, long legs?
How far are we willing to go?
God says, “But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” Matthew 5:28.
Oh, we have the solution to that. We will rearrange our affairs to make this the real deal.
Then we read, “But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” Matthew 5:32.
“God,” we cry. “But I want this so much!”
Then we get the most horrendous reply. “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.” Hebrews 13:4.
God is taking us back to what he deems right and just. He looks at our hearts, and he says, “What’s yours is yours, and what’s not is not.”
Ouch! In our moment of consternation, we open the Word for comfort, and we read, “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” Ephesians 5:25.
It finally hits us. What’s ours is ours, and what’s not is not. Just because something looks good to us doesn’t mean we can reach out our hand to grab it. Sometimes we have to turn loose of it and grab God’s outstretched hand instead. When we let him draw us close, and we listen carefully to his whispers, we will hear him say, “I, the God of all creation, have something so much better for you. Just listen while I tell you all my plans…”
How do we know we can trust the whispers of God? He’s written it down in black and white, and we can read his words in Jeremiah 29:11. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
When we turn loose of what looks good to our natural man, we will be able to grab hold of what looks good to our God, and we will begin to achieve greatness in him.
Jesus offers us limitless choices if we draw close enough to hear his whispers of love.
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