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Greed Makes the Rich Feel Poor
When it’s never enough
We’ve all read about people who grew up poor who then acquire a burning desire to make money and never be poor again.
There is actually nothing wrong with ambition. The problem occurs when we become captive to the lure of more.
If you have an insatiable appetite for money, it won’t matter how much you accumulate. It will never be enough. You can be the richest person in the world but still feel poor because you have an empty space that you are trying in vain to fill. But you’ll never be able to fill it.
Perhaps you have heard that money is the root of all evil?
This is a paraphrase of 1 Timothy 6:10: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Note that the Bible does NOT say that money is the root of all evil but that the love of money is.
There is nothing wrong with acknowledging that we all need money to live. Some may say that it’s possible for farmers to be self-sufficient, but what happens if he or she needs surgery, or has a bad harvest? Even centuries ago, owners of huge farms still traded for goods they could not produce themselves.
