What's In Your Wallet?

Have you seen those Capital One ads, where someone asks, "What's in your wallet?"  The premise is that each of us steps into the fiscal world daily facing financial opportunities and challenges, which require a credit card to master.  In order to come out a winner, you need to be carrying their card with it's particular benefits and services.

Well, I can't speak for Capital One and don't have a lot of faith in credit cards in general when it comes to helping most people get a financial advantage.  For most folks, credit cards work to increase the debt burden, not increase their financial well-being.

But I can speak with confidence about the One, whom you should never leave home without - no, not American Express - rather, the Holy One of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Alpha and Omega, the Great I Am!  It is the Spirit of God himself that you should carry into the daily fray that will allow you to be victorious over whatever you must face in life, financial or otherwise.

This is the truth revealed in the story of David and Goliath in 1 Samuel 17.  The little shepherd boy steps into the battle field against the battle-seasoned giant warrior.  Goliath was the odds on favorite.  David did not appear to have any chance at victory at all.  But David knew something that Goliath had no clue about:

"[45] David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. [46] This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands..." (1 Sam 17:45-46).  David appeared to have just five smooth stones in his sling pouch, but what he actually had was the very Sprit of God in his heart.

As you go out each day, it matters little what's in your wallet if God's not in your heart.  And if God is in your heart, it matters little what's in your wallet.  Jus' Sayn.