Malcolm Dyles: Like a Bank Account

I'm sitting in a parked company vehicle with a fellow worker and somehow the subject comes up as to why things are so bad in 3rd world countries as here in Djibouti North Africa. We have to drive out to our work site and go right through the middle of these destitute poor people's dwellings. I had simply said, "I thank the Good Lord for His mercy on me or there go I." The man who seems to be highly intelligent says "I have a problem with that, as most of the world being destitute and you saying God is good to a slim percentage by giving us the bigger slice of the pie." He went on to inform me that in his eyes he sees his personal efforts as the reason he is wealthy and well off as compared to these most unfortunate souls over here. He then asked me to explain to him why God would be nicer to us than the rest, other than the fact people like him try harder. I replied, "I can't answer for God as He is sovereign but what I can tell you is He has supplied all my needs according to His riches in glory. And furthermore, what I do with my increased blessings does determine where I spend eternity. If I hoard it up to myself and cease to try and help the less fortunate, God has a problem with that." He countered by saying he does believe there is a Higher Power but our status in life depends on us personally not that Deity. I know we all have to help ourselves but without Him we can do nothing. I refuse to argue with anyone who is sold on themselves as much as this man, so I just turned the subject to something else. There are two scriptures that say it all for me and I link them together to come up with my analogy.

David said:

"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" Psalm 8: 3-4

 

Jesus our Lord said:

"A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." Luke 6:45

 

What you see and how you perceive what you see is a direct deposit to your heart's bank account. And what is in that account is what your mouth gives out as a withdrawal when you open it to speak. What David said + what our Lord said = what Bro. Mike better be saying. My hopes and aspirations in this life are dependent on what I see and how I perceive what I see. To this man he sees his efforts putting huge sums of money in his bank account, basically he is his own god. I'm cut out of a different bolt of cloth. What I see is a magnificent God who placed all magnificent creation in place and takes the time to look down on poor old pitiful me. By the way, the same man can't say two sentences without using guttural language. Apparently, he was not raised with a mother as mine who promised me she would wash my mouth out with soap if I ever said those words. He has spiritual bad breath, halitosis of the heart. 
What you see and how you see it is your direct deposits, and that is what you draw out when you speak. Like a bank account.

 

God bless you and God bless America.