The pursuit of material possession and worldly comforts continue to be the most powerful motivations of man.
Ask anyone what he continuously pursues in life, and almost always the answer is ------- money. Yes, money has so many definitions depending upon how a person views it. For general consumers of economic goods and services, money is "medium of exchange." You can exchange money with anything that will satisfy human wants. But for those who are already mature in spiritual life, they define money to be a "passport to everything on earth except fare tickets going to heaven."
Money is not an evil parse. It is the love for money that leads to many temptations. We know of men and women known for great riches but whose life has been thrown to despondency, died sad and frustrated because of wrong obsession for money.
Yes, life must always be more than just an inventory of things we own. Trusting money instead of God makes us victims that highlights money's common snare to endless temptations. Let us not be dominated by worry over material things but be ruled by God's spiritual riches to enable us to experience that rare contentment and peace money can't buy.
A writer aptly describes contentment this way "the contented is never poor; the discontented is never rich." So we are rich when we are satisfied with what we have.
PEACE BE WITH YOU!!!
Ask anyone what he continuously pursues in life, and almost always the answer is ------- money. Yes, money has so many definitions depending upon how a person views it. For general consumers of economic goods and services, money is "medium of exchange." You can exchange money with anything that will satisfy human wants. But for those who are already mature in spiritual life, they define money to be a "passport to everything on earth except fare tickets going to heaven."
Money is not an evil parse. It is the love for money that leads to many temptations. We know of men and women known for great riches but whose life has been thrown to despondency, died sad and frustrated because of wrong obsession for money.
Yes, life must always be more than just an inventory of things we own. Trusting money instead of God makes us victims that highlights money's common snare to endless temptations. Let us not be dominated by worry over material things but be ruled by God's spiritual riches to enable us to experience that rare contentment and peace money can't buy.
A writer aptly describes contentment this way "the contented is never poor; the discontented is never rich." So we are rich when we are satisfied with what we have.
PEACE BE WITH YOU!!!
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