A devotional I did for the CCCA (Christian Camp and Conference Association)
In this recession it is good to remember that the kingdom’s currency is a different currency. (Check out Isaiah 55:1–2.) God calls us to a currency of compassion, mercy, forgiveness, grace and peace. Just when you feel at wit’s end about how to make ends meet in your department and in your finances, it is good to remember that the stuff most important to our Lord has nothing to do with cash, checks or credit cards. God is the ruler of the universe and all that is. Everything is His. He has no use for our offerings. What He
longs for, what He craves beyond all things is the one true currency that we have actual control over. He wants our hearts. This understanding of true currency requires a major adjustment of our interior beliefs. We have to be vulnerable enough to see that what happens to us on the outside does not need to affect our interior desires and hopes. We can still have love, hope, kindness, goodness and gentleness even when our checking accounts are empty. Dietrich Bonhoeffer said in his book The Cost of Discipleship, “Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can
provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.”
*—Contributed by Tom Johnson-Medland, foodservice manager at Pocono Plateau Camp and Retreat Center (Cresco, Pa.)
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