If you love Me...

Everyone, at some point or another, has heard the scripture that says "it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 19:24). I'm sure everyone knows something about 1 Timothy 6:10, but the way it's quoted couldn't be further from the truth! The scripture actually says "the love of money is the root of all evil", not "money is the root of all evil". How can money be evil? It has no soul, no spirit, no conscious! People use money for evil purposes; they attempt to gain money for the wrong reasons, but money itself is NOT evil!

Many people try hard to gain money thinking it will solve their problems, only to find that in their pursuit of wealth, their problems have surmounted. The bible says in James 4:2-3 that we kill for what is not ours and are envious of others because of things. If we don't ask God, we won't get it and when we do ask God, we ask with wrong intentions so we still don't get it! But if we would only set our minds on things above, that is to say the things of God, and not the things of this world (Colossians 3:2), things that can be lost, destroyed, stolen, then we'll have treasures stored up in heaven (Matthew 6:19-20)! Don't you know that whatever we concentrate on most, that is the thing that becomes most important to us. That is the thing that becomes a part of our being & takes over our lives! Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also (Matthew 6:21)!