SAVING FOR A RAINY DAY

I was thinking the other day back to years ago and about this one person I knew. This person had a life long struggle with the problem of being overweight. Having that problem for many years myself I was able to appreciate the difficulty this individual had with trying to lose weight and keep it off.

I'm sure that is a story plenty of people know personally and how often those without a weight problem are less than compassionate with the problem. And what it has to do with the idea of saving for a rainy day is something I'll attempt to explain.

In this situation, the person told me one holiday that it was now the individual's goal to lose a pound a week. That is certainly not a fast weight loss, which is recommended, but in this case it wasn't realistic either. A fact that became evident by the reality that the person never did really lose any weight. Oh, I'm sure the person meant to, but for that individual it just never worked out to be more than another excuse to put off confronting the problem with a realistic resolve.

How does this apply to the concept of saving for a rainy day? I'm going to take this in the slant of thinking in terms of being prepared. The point being that with such things as saving money for a rainy day and even doing things to preserve one's health, they all speak of a certain legitimate wisdom. But now matter how wise and true the wisdom is that doesn't mean we actually do embrace it as our lifestyle choice.

On a scriptural level there are many admonitions in the bible with regards to ways we ought to live. Some apply to the idea of what is a sin, but the plain fact is that they all in one way or another represent wisdom if we followed it would at least suggest our live would be more prosperous on some level.

The only problem is we don't manage to accomplish it. Just like saving a rainy day might be a prudent choice, for a lot of us saving is just not the priority is should be. Of course the result is when face with an emergency we regret not making that choice, but once we survive the crisis do we really change, probably not.

Okay, so the question to me is how come if this is human nature, why does so much preaching focus on beating a person to death with do's and dont's? I always felt that we do a good enough job on own our feeling guilty without help.

And even though such sermon beatings seldom seem to improve human behavior, I think we can find a lot more such sermons than those, which inspire. A friend of mine and I discuss this fact and both felt the core of the issue lies in the simple fact too many people fail to understand the message of grace.

God know when we try and when we don't. He can see our heart and tell when we just have some anvil of habit lying on our soul from which he chooses to not deliver us.

But that doesn't mean we are still vulnerable to the accusers who point the finger and imply you could change if you want to. That is often such a cruel comment heartlessly uttered by those with so little love for people who aren't perfect. I rejoice that God is fair more merciful in our failings than those that should be, but aren't.