"Righteous Cause" -4

"Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of His servant." (Psalms 35:27) Okay, I am almost done; but I need to address this one other angle about prosperity, and it has to do with God's awesome provisions in our daily lives here, as we live here waiting to be with Him. First I wanted to examine the part of the verse that says, "let them say continually", which might seem a bit much to ask; however, if you look at the reference of them shouting for joy and being glad because they favor his righteous cause, then it really makes perfect sense why anyone would be glad that God loves to bless His servants. Not only does He love to bless them, but He has pleasure in the prosperity of His servants; mainly because those that are His servants will turn their prosperity into a blessing for others, thereby giving God the glory for having blessed them in the first place. After all, we are not taking anything with us, and we only need what we need to live on for today, so why not bless others while you can? Which brings me back to the "let them say continually" part of this verse, because this is something that those that do get blessed by prosperity in this life must always keep in mind, that God has blessed us in order that we can bless others, not that we can horde everything and become rich in wealth, but that we might share what we have been given and become rich in spirit. Being on the inside of the church operations, you truly learn some interesting lessons by observing the lives of those who give faithfully, and those that don't; those that don't give very much at all, are always seeming to have hardly enough to get by; while those that give abundantly never complain about not having enough, nor do they shy away from stepping up when there is a special need in the church. It is really about this thing called trust in God, whereas they trust that God will continually bless them because of their giving attitude and their desire to bless God in their giving because He has continued to bless them. I see it like a wheel that must keep on rolling along: God blesses us, we bless others, God is blessed, and God continues to bless us; and there we go, rolling on down the road with God having pleasure in our prosperity; however, if we fail to bless others when we are blessed, then there becomes a flat in our wheel, and although it might still roll, it doesn't roll all that easy; and if we continue to fail in that difficulty, then it might stop rolling altogether, and will require a fix to get it going again; but that's just from my own experience, we all need to judge how we are to give by what God places upon our hearts, but we all do need to give... "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed Me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed Thee? In thy tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed Me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. And all the nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts." (Malachi 3:8-12)