GROW UP - WEEK THREE - Day THREE

Hello and welcome to your Daily Devos, following our Grow Up series at 29:11!

Take some time today to read through the provided scriptures, meditate on the lessons we’ve learned this week, and journal your prayers. Have an amazing week, 29:11 Church!

THEME SCRIPTURE: 

“You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.”

- 2 Corinthians 9:11-12

TODAY’S PASSAGE:

21 Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

22 But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, for he had many possessions.

23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, it is very hard for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. 24 I’ll say it again—it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”

- Matthew 19:21-24

REFLECTION:

Getting new clothes or a new car can be so satisfying. But isn’t it interesting that even after a month the joy from the “new thing” can wear off. Jesus knew material things won’t ever truly satisfy us. When he was talking to the rich young ruler he challenged him to surrender it all because things of this world will never fill the empty hole in our hearts. If Jesus asked you to sell everything, would you be willing? Surrendering it all starts with laying down our finances. Our money isn’t our own, it's God's resource and we are stewards of it.

THOUGHTS TO PONDER:

If someone were to look at your checking account would it reflect total surrender to God? What is one area you can surrender your finances to God?