After You Say “I Do” Devotional by H. Norman Wright

Author:H. Norman Wright
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Published: 2010-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

“Affluenza”

Don’t weary yourself trying to get rich.

Why waste your time?

PROVERBS 23:4 TLB

In the 1918–1919 influenza epidemic, millions of people died. While couples are still affected by influenza epidemics today, they are at a higher risk of another epidemic…affluenza. That’s right, affluenza, not influenza—and it’s contagious! Here are the symptoms:

• Desiring to have more, regardless of what we have

• Striving to be successful without being contented

• Placing career over family

• Refusing to be satisfied with less than the best

• Refusing to follow the biblical guidelines to live our lives to God’s glory5

Most people today value what they don’t have more than what they do have. They look at what their friends have and say, “We need that.” Some people “need” to buy lots of clothes. Others “need” the latest model car. Still others “must have” the computer with the latest chips and software. But the truth is that they don’t need it—they want it. God’s Word has something to say about our need to accumulate things:

Those who love money will never have enough. How absurd to think that wealth brings true happiness! (Ecclesiastes 5:10 NLT).

People who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction (1 Timothy 6:9 NLT).

No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money (Luke 16:13 NLT).

Our contact with cultural values alone puts us in danger of catching affluenza. We need to be on guard, to inoculate ourselves against the illness. Part of the inoculation comes from taking an honest look at where we are and understanding that accumulating things doesn’t truly satisfy our desires.

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