MONDAY NOVEMBER 11
“Life
is not measured by how much you own.” Lk 12:15 NLT
HOW
MUCH IS ENOUGH? (1)
What does “the good life” mean to you? Driving the
fastest car? Owning the biggest house? Wearing the latest clothes and having
the most prestigious job? God’s concept is very different. Jesus said, “Guard
against…greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.” G.K. Chesterton said,
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to accumulate more and more. The
other is to desire less and less.” Aleksander Solzhenitsyn discovered this
truth in a Soviet prison when his freedom, his friends, his home and his books
were taken away. After months of solitude in Antartica, Admiral Richard Byrd
wrote, “I’m learning…a man can live profoundly without masses of things.” What
a great place to arrive at! Harold Sala writes, “People today are possessed by
possessions as no other generation…The more complex life becomes, the more
convinced we are that we need more to be happy. Having obtained what we think
we need, we soon become unhappy because a model with more bells and whistles
comes out… It takes far less than we think to discover happiness if [it] comes
from within and we break the stranglehold things have on our lives.” So, how
much is enough? Jesus told the rich
young ruler who wrestled with that question, “Sell your possessions…give to the
poor, and you will have treasure in heaven…Then come, follow me” (Mt 19:21
NIV). Not the answer he expected! Does that mean that God is opposed to you
having money? No, He’s just against anything taking his place in your life! He
knows that “Your heart will be where your treasure is” (Mt 6:21 NCV).
Taken
from the Word for you Today devotional
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