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Don’t Fall In the Trap
By admin | January 30, 2008
By now you know that I LOVE talking about the practical side of money. I think there are healthy steps and principles you can adopt in your life that WILL put your finances in a position of freedom.
However, there is another side to money that we cannot ignore. Money has spiritual and emotional implications involved with it. These thoughts are more theoretical but still valid and important. I was reading through my journal this morning and came across a verse in 1st Timothy that I wrote down.
1 Timothy 6:9 “People that want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.”
Basically, people that want to get rich fall in a trap. And I think we all know many kinds of traps this speaks of because we have all experienced this.
For me (and I know many others), I always want the next thing in life. If I just get the next thing then everything is gravy. Then once I get to that next thing I realize all I really want is the thing after that. It is a cycle, a trap.
Whatever you have in your head of “if I just get this in life”…a job, a girlfriend, a nicer car, a macbook air…whatever it is, once you get it now there is something else you want. This is a trap that most of Americans are in right now.
So, what do I do?
Learn the art of being content in every circumstance. Paul said in Philippians 4:12-13:
“I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.”
Paul has learned the “secret of being content.” You have to ask yourself, are you content with what you have? Will you ever be? Honest questions to ask. If at some point the realization is you will never be content with what you have, what is the point of chasing it?
It is a trap.
Hebrews 13:5 “Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
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