Teach Us to Number Our Days Estimating Your Worth

Teach Us to Number Our Days

Estimating Your Worth

Romans 12:3

Tells us our net worth is

 according to the measure of faith

God has given you.

Many of you know I day trade.

I trade Forex and Equity options.

I have gained a lot of knowledge

over the past 4 years.

I can read charts;

draw trend lines;

I understand Stochastic

and MACD.

I won’t bore you with all I know

because that is not important.

All my knowledge is a waste of time

if I don’t have enough confidence

to pull the trigger

and make the trade.

Trading has more to do with your emotions

than it does your knowledge of the markets.

It is the same way with God’s Word.

 You can know the Bible

and hear God’s voice.

But if your emotions get in the way of acting,

it doesn’t do any one good.

Fear keeps me out of great trades.

My heart beats faster as the signals line up.

There is risk!

So the question isn’t

‘How much you know’?

The question is

‘Are you acting on what you know’?

God’s Word tells us,

without faith it is impossible to please God.

Paul tells us,

we should not think of ourselves

according to what we know,

but according to the faith

God has given us.

Each one of us has been give a measure of faith.

Faith also comes by hearing the Word of God.

So as we number our days,

are they filled with fear or faith?

Is what we know being lived out each day?

Scripture Reading 

Romans 12:3-4 NLT

3 As God's messenger,

I give each of you this warning:

Be honest in your estimate of yourselves,

measuring your value

by how much faith God has given you.

Romans 12:3-4 NIV

3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you:

Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought,

but rather think of yourself with sober judgment,

in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.

Hebrews 11:5-6 NIV

 6 And without faith it is impossible to please God,

because anyone who comes to him

must believe that he exists

and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.