All Kinds of Greed

We have been warned. But have we taken heed? There are so many traps all around us. From every directions they becon. They are traps of greed.

Luke 12:15 says, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

Have you ever thought about all the different kinds of greed that there are? Often we think of greed in terms of money. Greed may be evident if we open our eyes and take a look around our homes. How much "stuff" is found hanging on your walls and scattered across the mantles of table tops gathering dust? How many forgotten table cloths are folded neatly and placed in drawers - some perhaps have never even been taken out of their packaging! What about the surplus in our food closets even though the scales have told us not to buy so much.

Our pockets, our stomachs and our desires can all be places where traps have attached themselves. Our desires should not be for "things", they should be for the courts of the Lord. We need to trust God for his provision.

America is in a mess right now. As a country we have stepped in the traps that greed has set for us and as a nation we will fall if we do not disengage these traps. We have eagerly stepped into them because our flesh desires the "things" of this world instead of the courts of the Lord.

I pray that the nations current financial problems will cause us to wake up to what is really important, make us fall on our faces before God and repent for allowing greed to come in and take hold of us. As Christians, we need to take an honest look at where greed has come into our lives and then remove those idols. God is to be our stronghold not greed - not the desires of our flesh.

We are to have no other God before him. The idols of greed must be destroyed.