Money Matters - Less is More
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Then someone called from the crowd, “Teacher, please tell my brother to divide our father’s estate with me.” Jesus replied, “Friend, who made me a judge over you to decide such things as that?” Then he said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.” Then he told them a story: “A rich man had a fertile farm that produced fine crops. He said to himself, ‘What should I do? I don’t have room for all my crops.’ Then he said, ‘I know! I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones. Then I’ll have room enough to store all my wheat and other goods. And I’ll sit back and say to myself, “My friend, you have enough stored away for years to come. Now take it easy! Eat, drink, and be merry!” ’ “But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’ “Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.”
Better to have little, with fear for the Lord, than to have great treasure and inner turmoil.
Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.”
Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!
Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth. 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. So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content. 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. 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.
Less is More
Over 70% of people live paycheck to paycheck, regardless of income. Why? because we don’t live within our means? Why don’t we live within our means? B/c we feel like we need stuff that we don’t really need.
Life is not measured by how much you own.
Contentment
We are content b/c we have a relationship with God.
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