Living Paycheck to Paycheck

There is at least a generation of people, if not a multigenerational trend, that have been trained by themselves and/or culture to sacrifice for something that does not love them. Whether a career, hobby, ministry, companion, boss. Inanimate or human, they use, mistreat, abuse...and with permission by the host.

This epidemic leads to a great deal of fallout in the form of mental and emotional health issues, relational immaturity and depravity, and it affects people around them, especially those who care for them. They severely hamper their ability to receive and embrace true love when it comes by, even though they long for it with tears in the night watches.

But in the day, when everyone is looking, the walls of Fort Knox erect around their hearts, with the decor of jadedness and cynicism, and transactionality instead of relationality in their connection with people.

Are they truly content not experiencing the sweetness of deep communion with God and people? Or have they desensitized their divine discontent with sugar substitutes?

These people live paycheck to paycheck, spending all they have on themselves or in other money sinks. Never investing significantly in the eternal reservoirs of being intimate and vulnerable with others, and with their Maker.

What if our ears were retuned to hear the echo of the Word of God ringing, though I give all I have to the poor...even give my body to be burned...and have not love, it profits nothing. Bold and fascinating, as we often equate extreme expression of love as these very things.

May this be a heart check for you and me? To really consider this and allow a personal inventory to become a regular occurrence? There is no good ending if we have gained some or much of the world while losing our soul to it in the process. Grace is here now. And it is safe to be brutally honest with yourself and the Savior.


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