Does Money Satisfy?
BIBLE MEDITATION:
“But godliness with contentment is great gain.” 1 Timothy 6:6
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
Dr. Vance Havner is quoted as saying, “I’m often amused and amazed at
the way we equate Christianity with success, popularity, and prosperity.
We may not admit it, but we use the same old gauge the world uses,
except we employ religious language. It would appear that gain is
godliness with us, in spite of Paul’s formula that godliness plus
contentment equals prosperity.”
So often we say that money will not satisfy, but that all depends on
what we’re trying to satisfy. The problem is not that money doesn’t
satisfy. The greater danger is that it does—but only for a season. If
you have it and you are satisfied with the things of this world, that’s a
dangerous place to be spiritually.
ACTION POINT:
Consider this: Paul had one of the best pedigrees any Jewish person
could have. Yet he wrote (Philippians 3:7-8): “But what things were gain
to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count
all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my
Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as
rubbish, that I may gain Christ.”
Devotions taken from the messages of Adrian Rogers.
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