KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Possessions
WHETHER MEN ARE wealthy or poor -- or somewhere in between -- their attitude toward material possessions is one of the most reliable marks of their spiritual condition...
There is a temptation to both the rich and the poor. The rich are tempted to trust their possessions, and the poor are tempted to doubt God's provision. The rich are tempted to become self-satisfied in the false security of their riches, and the poor are tempted to worry and fear in the insecurity of their poverty...One of the supreme tests of our spiritual lives is gauged by how we view and handle money. Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of every ten verses in the New Testament deals with the subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer, fewer than five hundred on faith, and over two thousand on money. (John MacArthur)
KneEmail: "...Give me neither poverty nor riches -- feed me with the food You prescribe for me; lest I be full and deny You, and say, 'Who is the Lord?' Or lest I be poor and steal, and profane the name of my God" (Prov. 30:9).