I am Second

²¹Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

(Mark 3:21)
We all know this story.(if not look it up and read all of Mark 3. Great chapter on faith!!)
The one thing that has always bugged me about the passage is that Jesus never directly tells the rich man what that one thing is. I know that he is talking to him about that money can be bad. He talks elsewhere that it is root of all evil. But people have done good things with money, right. Churches depend on money to survive. We all need at least some; how else am I going to write this blog with out my MacBook? ;)

But it's a hart thing. What is it that rules you. Do you put money first in your life, or Jesus? Do you control the cash, or does the cash control you?

Though the whole chapter of Mark 3, it's talks about faith. From faith in God to take care of your financial needs to your physical needs. I feel that he is telling the rich man that, that one thing he is lacking is faith. He is telling the rich man to give it up, follow Him and and let Jesus take care of his needs.

I recently have been blessed by a website called "I am second" (iamsecond.com) and it has testimonials from everyday people to celebrities like Joe Gibs and Stephan Baldwin. (BTW Baldwin's testimony...Amazing!!) But it is a site that calls to put us and everything else in our lives second. God first, everything else second!

Take a look it is powerful stuff