Resigning from the Idolatry of the Money by Eduardo Flores
“If I put in the gold my hope, And charm to the gold: My confidence are it is you who; If I was glad that my wealths were multiplying, And that my hand was finding very much; If I have looked at the sun when I was glistening, Or at the moon when it was going beautiful, And my heart deceived itself secretly, And my mouth kissed my hand; This also would be a judged nastiness; Because he would have denied to the sovereign God” Job 31: 24-28
How many of us have not we wished to have the last car I shape, to live in a mansion, to be able to go out of walk and spend money without having to worry in the tomorrow? If we put the hand in our heart, many of us we would raise the hand accepting that this way we have lived. The love to the money has brought destruction in the life of many persons, and inclusive in the life of many "Christian" churches. This evil has drawn into the Christianity and now we see doctrines where the “material prosperity” teaches itself that according to the men who this way teach it, God wants to give to us. The desire for the wealths has caused divorces, familiar division, anyway a lot of evil. Entire families fight for there sees the one who remains with the best part of the legacy of some relative who has died. Truly it is slightly tragic.
“No serf can serve to two gentlemen; because or he will detest one and will love other, or will estimate to one and will despise other. You cannot serve to God and to the wealths.” Lucas 16: 13
When we read Exodus 20 we understand that God demands from us that we should adore only Him. He says to us clearly that we must not have other gods. But: how does the money turn into a god? The love to be rich, transforms us. In some cases we deliver our life to the work to do money; in other cases we committed an offense to gain easy money; we carry on dirty business to be rich; and we lose of sight God. In other words, this love to the money, makes us forget that God is the proprietor of our lives and that the only end by which we were created was to praise him and to adore him. If we are employed at excess, it gains us the weariness and we have no time to be in contact with God every day; if we committed an offense it is because we do not have God like being supreme in our life and for it we devote ourselves to do the bad thing. The important thing is that we understand that if we break the first order of God, of insurance we will sin.



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