KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Enslaved
YOU'VE READ STORIES of lottery winners who are more miserable a few years after winning than they were before...
The wealth they dreamed would bring happiness didn't. Not even close.
At the airport, Hugh Maclellan Jr. saw an acquaintance who looked troubled.
"What's the matter?" Hugh asked.
The man sighed. "I thought I was finally going to have a weekend to myself. But now I have to go supervise repairs on my house in Florida." Dejected, he sat waiting to take off in his private jet.
THOUGHT: Here's a man with everything he needs, with what most people dream of; yet he couldn't even enjoy his weekend. He was enslaved by his possessions. We think we own our possessions, but too often they own us. Nothing makes a journey more difficult than a heavy backpack filled with nice but unnecessary things. Pilgrims travel light. (Randy Alcorn)
KneEmail: "And He said to them, "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses" ( Luke 12:15).