Don’t chase that Bread! Chase that Mana!!!

Is God still good when you are the one being crucified? Is God still good when you do not get the promotion? Is God good when following Him leads you to the valley of the shadow of death?

God’s goodness is not dictated by circumstances. He is good even when we are slaughtered for the name of Christ. He is good even if we are homeless and hungry for His sake. He is good.

It seems to me that Christianity has become about God only being good if you are experiencing good things in this earth. This theology is erroneous because we’re not to be seeking after the things of this world, but looking for the one to come. If your treasure is in this earth then that is where your heart will be also…

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”

Romans 8:35-37

Is God good when people are being martyred in Africa or North Korea? This type of theology of getting all you can out of this life is only popular in western countries where the threat of death for the sake of Christ is not imminent.

God is good even if you are homeless. Even if you get fired. Even if you don’t have a certain dwelling place. Because this earth is not our home. Don’t set your affection on the things of this earth.

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”

Matthew 6:19-21

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him (1 John 2:15).

I want certain things in this earth for the furtherance of the gospel NOT for the furtherance of my ego. I believe in having things for Christ, but not for myself: FOR CHRIST. That means the possessions that God blesses me with are to be used for the furtherance of His Kingdom. For the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. If it’s His then we are only stewards of the things He has given us. If you’re not going to be a good steward of unrighteous mammon then why would God trust you with true riches?

“If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

Luke 16:11-13

Do you actually believe that the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof? If you do then you would understand that the wealth you have received is actually His and you are a steward of that wealth for the furtherance of His kingdom. If you are storing up treasure for yourself then you are not the cutting-edge Christian you think you are.

God is good. His goodness is not dependent on the abundance of the things you possess or the ease at which you pass through this earth, but because your name is written in the book of life. But if He has given you an abundance it’s not for you to store it up for yourself it’s so that you can be a benefactor for His kingdom.

And he said unto them, "Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses." 

And he spoke a parable unto them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:" 

And he thought within himself, saying, "What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This is what I'll do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry." 

But God said unto him, "You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you: then whose shall those things be, which you have provided?"

So is he that lays up treasure for HIMSELF, and is not rich toward God" (Luke 12:15-21).

How do we become rich toward God? We become rich in good works.

“Charge them that are rich in this world, that they do not be high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to [share]; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life”

1 Timothy 6:17-19

Love you guys! Let’s not be found “chasin that bread”, but let’s chase after that bread that comes from heaven!

“Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say unto you, you seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Do not labor for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him has God the Father sealed”

John 6:26-27