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September 17
Wednesday


GIVING IT
TO GOD

READ:
Mark 10:17-22
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[He] went away
sorrowful, for he had
great possessions.
__Mark 10:22
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A hero to a generation of people who grew up after World War 2, Corrie ten Boom left a legacy of godliness and wisdom. A victim of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, she survived to tell her story of faith and dependence on God during horrendous suffering.

"I have held many things in my hands," Corrie once said, "and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that, I still possess."

Corrie was well acquainted with loss. She lost family, possessions, and years of her life to hateful people. Yet she learned to concentrate on what could be gained spiritually and emotionally by putting everything in the hands of her heavenly Father.

What does that mean to us? What should we place in God's hands for safekeeping? According to the story of the rich young man in Mark 10, everything. He held abundance in his hands, but when Jesus asked him to give it up, he refused. he kept his possessions and he failed to follow Jesus__and as a result he "went away sorrowful" (v.22).

Like corrie ten Boom, we can find hope by putting everything in God's hands and then trusting Him for the outcome.

__Dave Branon

`````````````````````````All to Jesus I surrender,``````````````````````
`````````````````````````All to Him I freely give;``````````````````````
``````````````````````I will ever love and trust Him,```````````````````
`````````````````In His presence daily live. __Van d Venter``````````````
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No life is more secure than a life surrendered to God.

***************************************Today's Bible Reading __ Mark 10:17-22*********************************

17 Now as He was going
out on the road, one came
running, knelt before Him
and asked Him, "Good
Teacher, what shall I do that
I may inherit eternal life?"

18 So Jesus said to him,
"Why do you call Me
good? No one is good but
One, that is, God. 19 You
know the commandments:
'Do not commit adultery,'
'Do not murder,' Do not
steal,' 'Do not bear false
witness,' 'Do not defraud,'
'honor your father and your
mother,' "

20 and he answered and
said to him, "Teacher, all
these things I have kept
from my youth."

21 Then Jesus, looking at
him, loved him, and said to
him, "One thing you lack:
Go your way, sell whatever
you have and give to the
poor, and you will have
treasure in heaven; and
come, take up the cross,
and follow Me."

22 But he was sad at this
word, and went away
sorrowful, for he had great
possessions.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

In Mark 10:1-16, Jesus taught about the demands of discipleship,
including the necessity for childlike faith. Here in the encounter
with a rich young man Jesus spoke of the need to love God
totally__fully and unreservedly. This young leader lacked unrivaled
allegiance to God because he loved his earthly possessions more
(v.22). In His teaching, Jesus had warned, "No servant can serve two
masters. You cannot serve God and mammon" (Luke 16:13). The
young man's actions sadly illustrated this principle. History is also
told in Matthew 29:16-22 and Luke 18:18-23. Paul too warned of
the subtle lure of material riches in 1 Timothy 6:17-19.