Journey of a Thousand Miles

Prosperity and hard work are correlated If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Get rich schemes don't work. Wealth gained hastily will dwindle. A lack of wealth is actually grace. Don't seek your security in money. God alone deserves our trust. We have no control over our personal security. He uses our sins and mistakes; he brings good out of our folly. Go back to God; His restoring grace waits for you. Let go of your regrets. Get on with what really matters. Ask God to transform you through your mistakes and to bring good out of it.

What does it really mean to live by grace? In our social media world, it's easy to put on a false front that our lives are manageable, doing okay, and we are just fine. Pictures of our perfect life are posted proudly with witty banters and taglines. We wait anxiously to see how many people will 'like' or comment on our update and get disappointed when people don't, and we feel we have to redeem ourselves by posting another update or picture that is better, wittier, more popular. It's easy to pretend life is perfect when you're only revealing yourself in a two inch square on Instagram or 140 characters on Twitter. You don't have to look people face to face. What this results in is a lack of vulnerability, honesty, and true fellowship. We start to believe that we can gain our self-worth by how many 'likes' or comments we get on our status updates. Or which Instagram filter we use. Instead of living humbly, we begin to live proudly of our wonderful ...