Peter shared 1 Timothy 6:3-21 (Love of Money)This passage is not new to anyone. Especially at verse 10 “for the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from faith and pierced themselves with many grieves” and it’s where Pete started his sharing.
He showed us many advertisements from The Straits Times he has collected over a short period of time. Pointing out how advertisers use “buying” as a way one can get everything (almost everything a Christian reads) he needs. This “buying” thirst cries out for more money… There’s so many advertisements that Pete pointed out. I can roughly remember 2… (sorry, memory is the inverse proportion with age…)
Carrefour – get the life you always want with Carrefour
BMW – get people talk about you. “he strike TOTO”, “He gained from the En-Bloc transaction”, “He just got promoted”
He’s short and sharp in the message; totally awakening for a 20mins of sharing. In verse 9: People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.
Quoting: We WANT pple to talk abt us, discuss about our lives and our wealth. That’s why we’re in constant need of money, MORE MONEY.
Well, it sure made me reflect on my life (or course, it involves Hus’), we both worked hard to keep our jobs that pay us and our CPF accounts so that our flat is paid for monthly. We’re comfortable with our lives, neither extravagant nor hungry, and not yearning for more. Does that make us better than those who drive big cars or stay in lavished homes?
I’m sure we won’t mind extra dollars to go to exclusive dive locations all over the world. Does this make us denial of God’s masterplan?
Hus isn’t one who will go out of way to get more money; he seems contented with what is given. His faith shines when he’s in a group of pre-believers even though he’s the quiet type in church. He’s known to be “the contented one” amongst his friends. I think he understands “seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these will be added onto you…” better even though he may not remember Esau and Jacob were twins; and the son that Abraham offered was Issac.
God feed even the birds of the skies, but we chose to worry for ourselves and strife for more than we need.
Thought of the blog:
Are we shouting back to God with words/actions, “enough is NOT enough!”?
I worry for the person who brought me to faith, this yr is the 10th year of me being a Christian, are you still in faith?
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