Comfort is good.
We like our soft beds, air conditioned houses, and quiet-running cars. We work hard, and we deserve what we get.
Let’s pull out that phrase: We deserve what we get. It can be taken more than one way.
What do we strive for? Our desires follow our money chain. What we spend on tells our priorities. Where do we put our cash? In travel, houses, our children, or our church? Do we have huge investment accounts but live in a rented apartment? Would we rather eat out than install a gourmet kitchen?
Luke 1:53 shows us how God views the rungs on our priority ladder:
“He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.”
Clearly this has little to do with material possessions. The hungry are filled with good things. The rich are sent away empty. What good things? Empty of what?
There’s an oft misinterpreted scripture in 1 Timothy 6:10.
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils.”
Note what this scripture doesn’t say. Money isn’t evil. It’s when we love it too much and it begins to undermine our relationships and commitments that it becomes a problem.
Luke tells us that if we’re empty of Christ, we can be filled with the knowledge of him. If we’re materially wealthy, it’s easy not to seek Christ, because we’re filled with our own importance.
Our choice must be Christ. He’s the only thing that satisfies our souls.
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