May 14: Cheerfulness and Contentment.
The Love for Jesus and of Riches Are Incompatible.
"What should we do?" asked some soldiers. John replied, "Don't exhort money or make false accusations. And be content with your pay."--Luke 3:14, NLT
THE SELFISH, MONEY-LOVING MAN lives only to secure for himself the riches, honors, and pleasures of this world. He loses the eternal world from his reckoning.--Christ's Object Lessons, 101.
If men love their riches better than they love their fellow men, better than they love God or the truths of His word, if their hearts are on their riches, they cannot have eternal life....Like the young man in the Bible, many go away sorrowful because they cannot have their riches and a treasure in heaven, too. They cannot have both; and they venture to risk their chance of eternal life for a worldly possession....
...The love of Jesus and of riches cannot dwell in the same heart. The love of God so far surpasses the love of riches that the possessor breaks away from his riches and transfers his affections to God. Through love he is then led to minister to the wants of God's cause. It is his highest pleasure to make a right disposition of his Lord's goods.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 1, 172.
Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich.
Be wise enough to know when to quit.
In the blink of an eye wealth disappears,
for it will sprout wings
and fly way like an eagle.
--Proverbs 23:4, 5, NLT
The Love for Jesus and of Riches Are Incompatible.
"What should we do?" asked some soldiers. John replied, "Don't exhort money or make false accusations. And be content with your pay."--Luke 3:14, NLT
THE SELFISH, MONEY-LOVING MAN lives only to secure for himself the riches, honors, and pleasures of this world. He loses the eternal world from his reckoning.--Christ's Object Lessons, 101.
If men love their riches better than they love their fellow men, better than they love God or the truths of His word, if their hearts are on their riches, they cannot have eternal life....Like the young man in the Bible, many go away sorrowful because they cannot have their riches and a treasure in heaven, too. They cannot have both; and they venture to risk their chance of eternal life for a worldly possession....
...The love of Jesus and of riches cannot dwell in the same heart. The love of God so far surpasses the love of riches that the possessor breaks away from his riches and transfers his affections to God. Through love he is then led to minister to the wants of God's cause. It is his highest pleasure to make a right disposition of his Lord's goods.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 1, 172.
Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich.
Be wise enough to know when to quit.
In the blink of an eye wealth disappears,
for it will sprout wings
and fly way like an eagle.
--Proverbs 23:4, 5, NLT
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