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.
Scripture
1
Timothy 6
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.
9 But people who
long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish
and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
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.
Observation
The
truly wealthy in this world is not the millionaires and billionaires.
The
truly wealthy are described in 1 Timothy 6:6. So let me ask you this
question, “Do you consider yourself to be wealthy?”
We
live in a culture that by design stirs up discontent. We are
bombarded with messages constantly trying to get us to buy something
else.
Storage
units are being built all over our city and probably all over the
country just to store all the stuff that we thought we had to have.
I
don't need to tell you that we don't need the biggest, the newest,
the fastest, or the prettiest anything to make us happy or content.
The
newest is only new for a day, shiny things quickly lose their shine.
None
of the stuff that we can acquire will bring us contentment. So if we
have enough food and clothing, let us be content.
Application
I
will focus my attention on my relationship with my Heavenly Father.
How
about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, don't let me focus on the wrong things today. Help me to keep
my eyes on You. Help me to be content with what I have. I am blessed.
Because You are my Shepherd I have everything that I need. Help me to
be content.
I
pray for any person reading this blog today. Don't let them get
sidetracked with things that are not the most important. Help them to
keep You as the Number One priority of his or her life. Show them
that they can trust You to meet every one of their needs. Help them
to live godly lives. Help them to be content.
Daily
Bible Reading: 2 Kings 11,12; 2 Chronicles 24; 1 Timothy 6
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