Title: Neither poor nor rich (Proverbs 30:8)
Agur son of Jakeh said to God, "Give me neither poverty nor riches, but feed me with the bread I need, or if I am hungry and do not know God. Who is the LORD? Or am I poor and stealing and profaning the name of my God?" I'm afraid," he prayed. Believers have a right view of wealth is related to their life of faith. in our earthly life
What you need the most is material. Only when we have wealth can the problem of food, clothing and shelter be solved, and we can have all the things we need in our lives. Wealth makes us happy, joyful, and convenient. For this reason, many people struggle to obtain wealth, and it is considered as if they live their entire lives for one purpose. Some people loot, cheat, or embezzle other people's property in a wrong way.
There are people. There are many people who end up as prisoners while trying to get wealth by harming the lives of others with a weapon. Indeed, we humans have become slaves to wealth, driven by greed for wealth, and we are worshiped as idols as prisoners of wealth. The first way the devil deceives us is to "make bread out of stones," which is to 'live by materialism'. Humanity who fell for this devil's temptation
sin and go to hell. The love of money is the root of all evil. to us
The most dangerous thing is 'money'. From money they fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, falling into destruction and destruction, turning away from the faith and bringing misfortunes that pierce them with many sorrows. We saints should be careful to resist covetousness, and knowing that they came naked from the mother's womb,
If you have food, you should consider it sufficient. The Israelites in the wilderness did not need more than one omer of manna a day. As in the Lord's Prayer, we should pray, "Give us our daily bread." And it is important to earn money cleanly. Unclean riches bring disaster, bringing curses, disease, and misery to our bodies and families. the goods obtained
Since it is a gift from God, you must receive it with thanksgiving and give the first thing to God as a tite. Poverty causes trouble to others. We must earn wealth cleanly and diligently, resist greed, be content with what we have, and be good stewards of the wealth we have been given.