Don’t allow the blessings of God to lead you away from God.

This struggle can take many forms.

God warned the Israelites of their coming prosperity in the promised land. “You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me” (Deuteronomy 8:17). They could have thought their own hands were the cause of their blessing, which would result in them forgetting God.

This is just one of the ways our blessing can lead us from God.

I have watched people get blessed financially, and with the resources to travel, they were continually gone from Church. The result was that they did not serve, connect, or worship. Others have been blessed with great friends who are constantly pulling them away from the community of faith. Some other people have been successful in their work, and it has been an enormous blessing, but they no longer have time for the things of God.

One trick of evil is to try and knock you down so that you will give up on faith. The other is to whisper in your ear as you are blessed and to make life all about you. He doesn’t care if you are down and out or blessed and out – as long as you are out.