I think that you are wrong
I have read what Shawn and Michele have written.
It is so easy to feel that we are not good Christians and that God is not blessing us, its so easy for speakers to work up guilt feelings in us. It is so easy for us to do too much to be tired and then depressed. The world tells us all sorts of wrong things, its so easy to start thinking in their terms, that we have to look after ourselves more.
You two are heros, (and I expect your spouses are heros too), we all are, having kept the faith through the years. We haven't had material success, I never will, and my retirement is certain to be a struggle on the pension, (if I can affoard to retire at all, I expect that it will be forced on me one day) I don't believe in the 'success gospel', I believe that us in the Christian life are bombarded constantaly by 'the world', though often temptations and wrongs pass us by without us knowing. keeping the faith is a success, the real success.
Now Shawn, Romans tells us that God withdraws his blessings on people who won't believe: I think he does on nations too.
blessings Gary
# posted by Anonymous @ 6:03 pm
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