His Higher Ways
by Gloria Copeland
Did you know that if you’ve been born again, you are not of this world?
You’re in the world, certainly. You have contact with it in the natural because you’re living on the earth. But spiritually you’re no longer under the world’s dominion. You’re not subject to the limitations and impossibilities of its sin-darkened system.
You’re a citizen of heaven! You’ve been delivered from the darkness of this world and translated into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love (Colossians 1:13). Your Father is Almighty God and He is unlimited. All things are possible to Him, and by faith in Him all things are possible to you too. You just have to believe it and operate according to His system.
God’s system is nothing like the world’s system. The world is all messed up. It follows after the devil, so its ways are as twisted as he is.
Where finances are concerned, for example, God says, “Give Me the first 10% of your income and I’ll see to it that you prosper richly. Give and it shall be given to you again!” But the world says the exact opposite. It says, “Put yourself first, get all you can and then hang onto it. Take care of yourself above all because if you don’t no one else will.”
I remember one time when Ken and I were driving through a big city during the lunch hour. I looked at all the people hurrying along the sidewalk, going to and from their jobs, and I realized that without God people have no other alternative than to keep pushing to make the world’s system work for them. They spend their whole lives working for things like food, clothing and shelter. Then, they wake up one day and realize their life is almost over.
BVOV : 27
