Christian Living

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'' FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY ''


Pick up the headlines in a major city like New York, and the title may read:

Man murders his wife to collect a half of a million dollar insurance policy!

Or: Woman sells her own daughter on the street, to get money to buy crack cocaine.

Identity theft is fast becoming the no.1 crime in the U.S. People all over are

employing the stratagy of "working the system" instead of employing "the system of work.

If today someone finds a wallet on the street and it contains 1,200 dollars in cash

and a drivers license, How many would even look in the phone book to see

if the person is a local? People have become so accustomed to quick gain, that

they forget that ill gotten gains are a dishonesty. A lot of folks think that if you get-over

on a sucker, that they have done well! This country was founded on virtue and trust.

Yet many Americans will say that if a mail bag with $60.000 dollars in fives and tens

were to fall out of the back of a mail truck, that they would throw a party!!

What is happening to the morals of this nation? I speak not for the GOD fearing Christians

but for the christians who think " Well I know it is wrong to steal, but if I ask for forgiveness

GOD will forgive me. GOD does forgive, but he also expects the person to be

repentive in their asking, for HE knows the hearts of all of us, and if we ask forgiveness and turn

not away from wickedness, then do you expect HIM to forgive? "Thou shall not covet

thy neighbors wife, nor his belongings" But most folks, when they see a rich man in

a thousand dollar suit say to themselves, Why can't that be me? They see a mansion on

a hill and think "Why do not I deserve a house like that?" Money is not the root of all evil

for the bible says that "the LOVE of money is the root of all evil". Yet today so many

so called born again Christians...LOVE money more than they LOVE GOD. We are

supposed to love HIM FIRST, and ABOVE ALL THINGS. How many christians do

that today. The LORD says "if you love ME, you will keep my commandments"

So does this mean that if we are steady breaking commandments that we have NOT the LOVE

for GOD? You got it right, because the LORD would have not said " if you love me".

People say then well what about grace and forgiveness? I tell them that they do, in fact exist.

But JESUS said in the NEW TESTAMENT...."You cannot serve GOD and mammon"

The Greek word for mammon is MONEY! Do I take this to mean that a man of GODS

cannot be rich? Of course not, for GOD can bless a man with riches, because a man

of GODS will take the riches and do things for GOD with them! Spread the gospel!

For this man of GOD is not serving money, he is serving GOD. The bible says

"first seek ye the kingdom of GOD, and these things will be added to you"

How many seek GOD first? I say this in no means to come off holier than thou,

to anybody. GOD IS NOT A RESPECTER OF PERSONS! He will not do one single

thing for me, that he would not DO FOR YOU! But first you have to seek him!

The bible says that "many are called but few are chosen" "Not every man, that calls on my

name, shall make the kingdom of heaven, for wide is the gate, but narrow is the PATH.

What path are you on? Just a thought. I pray for YOU ALL, and this nation, as I see a need

for a national revival, to bring it back to the honor system that is what once made it great.

It is still a great nation. But it would be blessed BEYOND MEASURE if people

would just seek GOD first.

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