What you focus on will seriously affect your ability to achieve your destiny, realize your goals and glorify God. Many children of God were focused on Jesus Christ before they became exposed to luxurious cars, mansions and exotic lifestyles, but after the Lord propered them, they began to ask the Lord questions as to why they should live their lives in accordance with his principles, which got them to where they are in the first place. While prosperity is good, it is only beneficial for as long as it is balanced with a lifestyle of godliness. Prosperity that does not have Christ at its centre is vain and only a passing shadow. A beautiful mansion without God is hell, while a hut with God in it is heaven on earth.
Just as it is written, we are told that some wise men came to seek Jesus. According to experts, these men must have travelled for at least two years before they got to their destination. They did not arrive immediately Jesus was born, as it is popularly depicted. From Herods enquiries on what time they first saw the guiding star, he could calculate that Jesus could be up to two years old when the wise men arrived. This was why in an attempt to kill the child, he decreed that children who were two years old and younger be killed. When the wise men eventually arrived at the place where Jesus was, they worshipped him and gave him gifts. Worship is incomplete without an offering. And always note that "he that walketh with wise men shall be wise : but a companion of fools shall be destroyed ".
If you want to be wise like these men, you will back your worship up with a good offering. Come before his presence with joy and thanks; bring him gifts and worship him, and you will be glad you did. Why? Everyone who has ever worshipped God had benefited from it. The wise men did not travel for two years in vain. After they saw the young Jesus and offered him gifts, their deed was immortalized. For over 2000 years, their story is still being told around the world wherever the gospel of Jesus Christ is preached. Who or what would you really love to see? After working with God for several years, Moses still asked God to show him his glory. I often wondered why, before I got the revelation. Job equally had the rate privilege of seeing God. If you look up to him and truly desire him, you will surely find him. Are you focused on the reason for the season or lost in the vanity that the world seeks?
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