BBD 03.09.17 The Wrong and the Right (Classic)

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Classic from 2009

Burning Bush Devotional

09 March 2017

The
Wrong and the Right

Command
those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in
uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to
enjoy. Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give,
willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to
come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. - 1 Timothy 6:17-19 NKJV.

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, the power and the glory, the victory and the
majesty; for all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours; Yours is the kingdom,
O LORD, and You are exalted as head over all.

Both riches and honor come from You, and You reign over all. In Your hand is
power and might; in Your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.

Now therefore, our God, we thank You and praise Your glorious name. But who am
I, and who are my people that we should be able to offer so willingly as this?
For all things come from You, and of Your own we have given You. - 1 Chronicles
29: 11-14 NKJV.

Something is wrong with a 22-year-old Chinese woman, Dan Dan, having to sell
herself in marriage to raise the money for a classmate's surgery. About $24,000
is needed to cover the treatment her friend needs for encephalomyelitis. There
is something wrong about the Sultan of Brunei spending about $24,000 for a
haircut when the money could be used in a much better way. There is something
wrong about anyone buying a $24,000 diamond studded computer mouse offered by a
Swiss company when the money could be used to help some who are facing
desperate situations. There is something wrong about paying $24,000 for two
melons at an auction in Japan, even though the melons were exquisite.

There is something right about a third-grader in Florida raising $24,000
selling lemonade to give to a cancer center. There is something right about the
Franklin Central High School students in Indiana, who raised $24,000 for the
Riley Hospital for Children. There is something right about the Arizona IHOP
raising and giving $24,000 to the ChildHelp organization that is dedicated to
helping victims of child abuse and neglect, and at-risk children. There is
something right about the Naples Women's Club in Florida raising and awarding
$24,000 toward 18 college scholarships.

As David points out, “all things come from You, and of Your own we
have given You.” We are only stewards of those material things that we have in our
possession. Everything that we have actually belongs to God. The apostle Paul
advises Timothy and us of how those who do have material things ought to use
them as he writes, “Let them do good, that they be rich in good
works, ready to give, willing to share.”

We may not be rich, and we may never have $24,000 in our bank account or even
$24 in our bank account. However, even the dollar or the penny that we have,
and the clothes that we wear; belongs ultimately not to us, but to God. We are
to be good stewards of that penny, and of those clothes. As James, the
half-brother of our Lord, says, “…to him who knows to do good and
does not do it, to him it is sin (James 4:17).”

Copyright © 2009 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
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Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Michelle Abetz, Brad, Damon D. & wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s
sister), Lexi McCalip, Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2009

Burning Bush Devotional

09 March 2017

The
Wrong and the Right

Command
those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in
uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to
enjoy. Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give,
willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to
come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. - 1 Timothy 6:17-19 NKJV.

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, the power and the glory, the victory and the
majesty; for all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours; Yours is the kingdom,
O LORD, and You are exalted as head over all.

Both riches and honor come from You, and You reign over all. In Your hand is
power and might; in Your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.

Now therefore, our God, we thank You and praise Your glorious name. But who am
I, and who are my people that we should be able to offer so willingly as this?
For all things come from You, and of Your own we have given You. - 1 Chronicles
29: 11-14 NKJV.

Something is wrong with a 22-year-old Chinese woman, Dan Dan, having to sell
herself in marriage to raise the money for a classmate's surgery. About $24,000
is needed to cover the treatment her friend needs for encephalomyelitis. There
is something wrong about the Sultan of Brunei spending about $24,000 for a
haircut when the money could be used in a much better way. There is something
wrong about anyone buying a $24,000 diamond studded computer mouse offered by a
Swiss company when the money could be used to help some who are facing
desperate situations. There is something wrong about paying $24,000 for two
melons at an auction in Japan, even though the melons were exquisite.

There is something right about a third-grader in Florida raising $24,000
selling lemonade to give to a cancer center. There is something right about the
Franklin Central High School students in Indiana, who raised $24,000 for the
Riley Hospital for Children. There is something right about the Arizona IHOP
raising and giving $24,000 to the ChildHelp organization that is dedicated to
helping victims of child abuse and neglect, and at-risk children. There is
something right about the Naples Women's Club in Florida raising and awarding
$24,000 toward 18 college scholarships.

As David points out, “all things come from You, and of Your own we
have given You.” We are only stewards of those material things that we have in our
possession. Everything that we have actually belongs to God. The apostle Paul
advises Timothy and us of how those who do have material things ought to use
them as he writes, “Let them do good, that they be rich in good
works, ready to give, willing to share.”

We may not be rich, and we may never have $24,000 in our bank account or even
$24 in our bank account. However, even the dollar or the penny that we have,
and the clothes that we wear; belongs ultimately not to us, but to God. We are
to be good stewards of that penny, and of those clothes. As James, the
half-brother of our Lord, says, “…to him who knows to do good and
does not do it, to him it is sin (James 4:17).”

Copyright © 2009 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Michelle Abetz, Brad, Damon D. & wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s
sister), Lexi McCalip, Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: http://www.paypal.me/EdWrather

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time
constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
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