The world would urge you to take what is yours--more of this and that, possessions, entitlements, anything based on self. The energy flow is from the world to you. The timeline for this better is now.
The Bible would urge you to give what you have--launching your service to the world out of your God-given gifts, with little thought of self. The energy flow is from God to you to others. The timeline for this better may be now but more likely will be far into the future.
So tempting to settle for the wrong better.
The fight between the two began with the voice speaking to Eve in the Garden of Eden:
You won't die. God knows that the moment you eat from that tree, you'll see what's really going on. You'll be just like God, knowing everything, ranging all the way from good to evil.Implied: You (we) deserve this better.
It is a trap--this temporary, for-sale-at-all-costs better.
Can we trust God that there is really a better better?
Only if we can trust that Jesus actually spent his life on a cross, dying to bring us a holiness that reunites us with the God that wants to give us what He deserves--an eternity we cannot conceive.
Hold out to receive what God deserves.
