“Go to now (or come now), ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.” (James 5:1-3)
Someone asked John D. Rockefeller, “How much money do you need to be happy and satisfied?” His reply was, “Just a little more.” That response is far from the teaching of scripture which says, “And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.” (I Timothy 6:8)
Howard Hughes was at one time one of the wealthiest men of this nation. Because of his paranoia over his health he assumed the role of a hermit living in seclusion for many years. It has been said that he may as well have had a sack full of last week’s newspapers as to have had all that wealth for all the good it did him.
Jesus said, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Matthew 6:19-21)
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