The Child Of God And The Beggar
When my father was a child, growing up in Germany, and his father would take him out to a restaurant, he would go around to other tables, pretend to be poor, and beg for their food. When his father caught him doing that, he wasn’t happy at all. He was embarrassed. To have your son going around begging as a pauper isn’t a good reflection on your family, or on your fatherhood. It’s the same way for God and you. If you’re born again, you’re a child of God. If you live, as if you’re empty, desperate, needing to get your fill from the world, from the media, from material things, even from the approval of others, then you’re a child of God living as a beggar. And it’s an embarrassment to heaven. Get filled up at your Father’s table. Everything you need is right there. Then if you want to go to the other tables, to the world, then go, but not to beg, but to give and bless. For a child of God is born not to beg, but to bless.
From Message #1225 - A Year Of Joy
Today, seek to be independent of the world. Seek all your needs from God. Be filled by directly from Him. And rejoice in the fact that you're not a beggar, but a child of the Most High.
