Beyond Blessed by Robert Morris

2020, book #23: “The ability to delay gratification — to wait for something we really want — is one of the rarest and most powerful skills in our culture.” — Robert Morris

Finished on April 9, 2020

After Robert Morris was a guest pastor at my church last year, he spoke briefly about this book. I ordered it right away as I had recently finished his first book on the topic of giving The Blessed Life (linked here).

You must show that you can be trusted with the few things that you’ve been given. What are you going to do with what is in front of you today? What about the things of the future? Are you like a river that God can flow His resources through or are you more of a reservoir that wants to maintain everything for themself?

Pg. 30, Quite simply, you can’t expect God to shower you with more resources if you’re still mismanaging the ones He’s already given you this can sound harsh, but it is actually God’s mercy in action. There are many believers that God simply cannot bless with great wealth because He knows it would destroy them. Few people understand that abundance is a far tougher test of character than poverty.