Ecclesiastes 5:10
"He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity."
Enjoy the wealth God has given you without leaving Him and others out. God is good and the giver of good gifts. We want the good gifts God wants to give us. However, we often seek the gift but do not seek the capacity to enjoy the gift. When we ask God for blessings, we should also ask Him for the gift of capacity so we can enjoy the blessings He gives.
Job observed that in Job 1:21—that: "The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." How many of us can praise God when we lose all of our sources of income?
It has been said, “Money makes a lousy lover. The more you love it, the less it satisfies. The more you focus on it, the less it delivers.”
So keep busy and enjoy life; don’t fret over its brevity and difficulty. Righteous people are enabled by God to work hard, laugh loud, enjoy their life and their stuff as gifts from God’s own hand. They have a rich and full life, whether they have prosperity or they are poor.
Be blessed
Vanity, vanity, vanity! People need to seek God's true heavenly riches that are in Christ Jesus. The heavenly riches is treasure which is eternal. We should not therefore, love and worship money - focusing on Caesar's temporary riches and not God's eternal riches.
Thanks for the insightful message that makes sense to anyone whose mind has been enlightened and they no longer are blinded by the god of this world (Satan and the temporary riches and wealth of the world). Jesus expressed the same sentiments:
Much more topical teaching/study about the riches of the world VS God's heavenly riches is being shared at the Bible Learners Ministries website: www.biblelearnersministries.org.
wow..thank for sharing these scriptures