“He that loves silver shall not be
satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also
vanity” (Ecclesiastes 5:10).
It is an ageless dilemma and timeless fallacy. The striving and the struggling to acquire
more things, has and will consume huge
amounts of time, energy and most definitely financial means as we as human
beings fall prey to this quest. It is
not just more in just the acquisition of material things that pull us into these
insatiable pursuits but it can be something better, faster, shinier and even things
smaller and quicker. There are myriads
of reasons, ways and concepts alluring us even as they fail to really satisfy
us.
Christians are immune to this. In fact, some in the faith seem to delight more in this acquisition of things
than in the working and refinement of God’s riches of grace, peace and love in
their lives.
We must all be sober minded about the
allure of more. We must be even more resolute
in never truly accepting the equation of acquiring more as always being better, as rock solid truth. Sometimes less is
better, sometimes enough is enough and sometimes what we have will service us way
beyond what the advertising might tell us of its uselessness. Sometimes we simply
do not really need anything else in our lives.
Our lives were made for fellowship with
God. Our deepest needs and fulfillment are to be found in Him. If we get lost
in the pursuit of abundance and the material things in this short life on earth
and miss the riches of God, we will have been quite foolish and have nothing at
the end of our lives.
“And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou
hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be
merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool,
this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things
be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and
is not rich toward God” (Luke 12:19-21 KJV).
Suggested Bible Reading Ecclesiastes 5
& Luke 12
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