Yet True Godliness With Contentment Is Itself Great Wealth

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Yet True Godliness
With Contentment
Is Itself Great Wealth

Don’t trust in our money. Why not? Because God says that money is so totally unreliable. It will sprout wings and fly away!

Scripture

1 Timothy 6

⁶ Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth.
 
⁷ After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it.
 
⁸ So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.

¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

¹⁷ Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable. Their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment.
 
¹⁸ Tell them to use their money to do good. They should be rich in good works and generous to those in need, always being ready to share with others.
 
¹⁹ By doing this they will be storing up their treasure as a good foundation for the future so that they may experience true life.

Observation

Don’t trust in our money. Why not? Because God says that money is so totally unreliable.

In the blink of an eye wealth disappears, for it will sprout wings and fly away like an eagle. Proverbs 23:5

Tainted wealth has no lasting value, but right living can save your life. Proverbs 10:2

Give freely and become more wealthy; be stingy and lose everything. Proverbs 11:24

Just in case you think these verses are for someone else let me remind you that we that live in the United States are the richest people in the world. No matter how poor you think you are you are still “rich” compared with the rest of the world. 

Your contentment and my contentment must come from godly living. 

Being generous with what we have and being ready to share with others should be our focus and not spending what we have on ourselves. 

Application

I will look for a way to be generous to someone that needs my help! How about you?

Prayer

Heavenly Father, You know how I struggle in this area. Give me a generous heart. Show me that I can totally trust You for each and every need that we have. Help me trust in Your word that says to me,

    “And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19

Don’t let me trust in money that can be here today and gone tomorrow. Help me trust in You.

Daily Bible Reading:  2 Kings 11,12; 2 Chronicles 24; 1 Timothy 6

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