Have you ever thought about what is most important to you? Do you think getting ahead financially will make you happy? Are you always comparing yourself to friends and neighbors? Are your worried about the kind of car you drive, the house you live in and the clothes you wear? Do you feel less a person because you don't have the finest of things? Many people including myself feel the same way at times. 1Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is the root for all kinds of evil. Some people eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." Society tells us that we are nobody if we don't have fancy things. Even our children feel the pressure amoung their peers to have the best stuff. In Ecclesiastes 5:10 Solomon says "Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless. Nothing has changed throughout history. Money always meant privelged. Matthew 6:19,20 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Of course we all need money to live on and support our families. God just wants us to use our money wisely and not to make it the center focus of our life.
Pray each day that God will help you to be a good steward of all He has provided.
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