Misguided Love

Good morning, I see you are keeping up on this journey. Hopefully tomorrow we can post one of the messages God is giving to those who have locked in on this journey.  Today I want to focus on misguided love. We often, in our goal to reach status, misplace our love and begin to love things verses loving people or even God.  Money is one of those things that we begin to show our affection to and it will consume us.  One of the wisest man once said, “Ecc 5:10 NET The one who loves money will never be satisfied with money, he who loves wealth will never be satisfied with his income. This also is futile.”  Is it not ironic that an object that cannot return our acts of love can consume us yet it will never satisfy us?  What if we accumulated love like we do money.

Paul in his writing to Timothy warns us that, “1Ti 6:10 NET For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.”  The reward of the love of money causes us to stray from the faith and cause us many pains. Again money is not the root, the love of money is the root of all evil. The root of a plant is what anchors it and gives it life. The story of King Midas, who so loved gold, was granted his heart desire that anything that he touched would turn to gold. Unfortunately, he touched what he loved most, his daughter (Marigold) (as an act to comfort her) and that touch was deadly. Greek mythology although untrue does have interesting illustrations. This one again illustrates you can't love money and people are you will lose one or the other. That act of loving money was a very painful lesson.  Jesus said, “Mat 6:24 NET “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”  Money has its place but the truth is that if our affection is in money or wealth, it will consume us and cause us pain. The love of that inanimate object can cause you to stray from the path and miss the trail on the journey. Today the subject is still love, the object we are discussing is money the challenge happens to be what is your master. Just as wealth and money can consume us so can jobs, homes, works, businesses, even ministry and we can love those things more than God and more than our neighbors. So here is the challenge as we identify dangerous detours on our journey.  Can you identify what you truly love?Let me help you answer this one in what consumes most of your time. Can that love be returned (not that it will but does it have the ability to be reflected)? Final question for today since we can’t serve two masters what is the master in your life?  All good question to challenge us to stay the course. God bless my beloved.