Of all the external distractions, money makes people the most uncomfortable. After all, we trade our time and energy for it. (When asked, “How much money is enough?” John D. Rockefeller, the wealthiest man in the early 1900s, answered, “Just a little bit more.”) Our culture has come to embrace that. But striving to accumulate money can be a snare.
Money cannot purchase joy.
It buys temporary distractions.
LeCrae
Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble.
Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely
and live to regret it bitterly ever after.
1 Timothy 6:10 The Message
We have been conditioned to believe that debt is not a problem. No one sets out to get in money-trouble. But based on current statistics, 60% of Americans carry a credit card balance from one month to another.
Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.
Nathan W. Morris
I often look around and realize that a lot of what I bought was emotional spending triggered by advertising … or my neighbor’s stuff. And I wonder what it would be like to have the money back instead of the useless junk.
Too many people spend money they earned..
to buy things they don’t want..
to impress people that they don’t like.
Will Rogers
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The one who loves money is never satisfied with money,
Nor the one who loves wealth with big profits. More smoke.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 The Message
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Relax your grip on your money
and abandon your gold-plated luxury.
God Almighty will be your treasure,
more wealth than you can imagine.
Job 22:24b-25 The Message
Good advice. But how do we do that? More tomorrow.