Then Jesus said to them," Be careful and guard against ll kinds of greed. Life is not measured by how much one owns."
Luke 12:15
"So much stuff to shop for, and so little time......" Has that ever gone through through your head before? It probably has. Let's hope that your not building you life around that next visit to the mall. The problem is that many people are. Today, people are obsessed with money and everything that it can buy. God is not. Should you be? God cares about people not their possessions, we should think like that too. Everyday we must try to resist the great temptation of placing possessions ahead of people. We must do our best to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Hear this: money is no evil, worshipping it is. You have got to remember that God is almighty and money is not. Worship God and you are blessed. Worship the dollar, we are punished and our punishment comes sooner rather than later.
"As faithful stewards of what we have, ought we not to give earnest thought to our staggering surplus?" Elizabeth Elliot
"It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity."
Anne Graham Lotz
"When possessions become our god, we become materialistic and greedy...... and we forfeit our contentment and our joy." Charles Swindoll
" When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction." Beverly LaHaye
"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess." Holocaust survivor Corrie ten Boom
Remember that your real riches are in heaven and to always place God First. Everything we have, we borrow from God.
