Mo Money

When ever I feel the need to justify my money or possessions, I am proving
they are no longer my tools, my slaves
rather I am a slave
to possessing
or
to the perception of being one-who-possesses-much

And I must wonder,
"Can I even imagine myself simply possessing the tools of money and possessions?
Can I imagine buying only that which is to be consumed and not displayed?"

[ I neither fear God nor love Him and my fellows ]


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Stuck on a thought (care to help?)

To the one thinking a thought...

What is the difference between

an assumption . . .

and

. . . truth

I really am stuck on this one. I can't see through this or around this. I'm feeling stuck.

Please help in the comment section.

Confidence vs. Certainty

I was listening to my friend, Ted Wueste, as he spoke on "Our Confidence".

Although he didn't put it in quite these words, I was struck with this:

Confidence and Certainty do NOT have-to go together.
I can have one without the other.

I have been swayed by the idea that being Certain about more and more of life will bring the Confidence that I so deeply long for, run after.

Yet Ted proposes (by way of Ecclesiastes) that Confidence comes from entrusting myself to a God that will not always look for my, personal benefit. Confidence comes from entrusting myself to a God that is wiser than I, a God whose wisdom draws me to better self-understanding, to less self-destruction, and ultimately to both a right-standing with Him and a desire for such right-standing above all else [which, ironically, is the essence of 'right standing']