Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the first of all your crops.

Then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will burst with wine.  

Proverbs 3:9-10 CEB

If we overlay Jesus life with this Proverb, maybe something interesting will emerge.

Jesus was born in poverty, was a refugee, was found in the Synagogue as a child, he was a carpenter, and then the last 3 years of his life lived as a Rabbi.

Honoring God with our wealth is not about how much we have, how much we give, about rules and regulations, it's living with a heart oriented towards God.

Our circumstances don't determine that.

Our wealth or lack of it doesn't determine that. 

Jesus trusted in the Big Story that his earthly life was part of, that the "plenty", the overflow, the bursting vats of goodness would result in God's time and in His way.

We too can trust in the Big Story. 

When all we seem to hold is ashes.

When the day ahead seems so ordinary.

When we wonder if we're making a difference.

When we see need and can't meet it.

When just getting out of bed is a win.

When Jesus was on the run to Egypt with his family, in the long days working with wood, in the endless walking with bickering disciples there may not have seemed to be bursting vats of overflowing goodness. 

Yet they were there, if we look.

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