Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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**daily Devotional**
Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one?s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses. ?Luke 12:15
I find it interesting that Jesus taught more about money than anything else. And He wasn?t trying to ratchet up the treasury. As far as we know, He never even asked for an offering. The reason He taught extensively on the subject is that nothing clogs our spiritual arteries more quickly than money?either working to have a lot of it or wishing that we had.
Think of the man who brazenly asked Jesus, ?Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me? (Luke 12:13). Amazing! He had an opportunity to ?go deep? with Jesus, but instead he wanted deep pockets.
Jesus responded with a stunning, counterintuitive statement: ?Beware of covetousness, for one?s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses? (v.15). He then went on to tell the parable of a rich man who was wildly successful from a worldly standpoint?having so many crops that he had to keep building bigger barns?but who, in God?s eyes, was actually a ?fool.? Not because he was rich, but because he was not rich toward God.
You?ll hear a lot of advice about how to become rich. But only Jesus tells it to us straight. It?s not about the money. It?s about the richness of our relationship with Him and the joy of turning our greed into generosity. ? Joe Stowell
The riches of this world are vain,
They vanish in a day;
But sweet the treasures of God?s love?
They never pass away. ?Bosch
Learning how to be rich toward God yields eternal dividends.