Re: Is God's payday on Friday?

I was talking with someone recently who was a little disappointed that though this person had been in their own eyes being "generous with God" (I assume by giving an offering) that God had not yet returned the "ten fold" spoken of in the Bible. Sometimes we take a too simplistic view of what the Scripture is trying to teach us and sometimes we just don't see the blessings!
As I drove home one evening this past week I was thinking about how God repays by His blessings. I was driving my 2004 Buick. Now I like my car for lots of reasons. It's roomy and comfortable, it's air conditioned and has cruise control and it's paid for but mostly because in the more than six years that I've owned my car it's not required very much. I recently had to put some tires on it, my son-in-law replaced my brakes and I've had the oil changed on a regular schedule. But for more than six years of ownership it's run consistently well. Now other folks may say, "good car" but I say, "good God!" God is good to us in so many ways that sometimes we simply fail to see His hand at work in our lives or our situations.
I've been studying a lot lately the life of King David. Now David was the richest, most influential man in his day. Yet David with all his power and wealth could never do what I get to do every day. I turn a knob and hot water runs out. I wake up to warm house because the furnace kicks on before I get out of bed in the morning. I open the door on the fridge and fill a class with cold, sweet tea. I ride down the highway in complete comfort at 60 (or so...) miles an hour in an automobile designed to keep me warm in the winter and cool in the summer. David traveled but his view seldom changed as he rode in his kingly chariot (if you know what I mean.) God's goodness has been poured out in our lives everyday. How sad that so many of His own children are so selfish even with Him who is the giver of every good gift connected to our lives. How sad too that many fail to see that God's payday is not Friday. It is in fact, every day!