GREED,
EMPTINESS OF

MONEY cannot bring satisfaction. It is like the man who said, “Last month my aunt died and left me $25,000. Last week, my brother died and left me $38,000. I am so depressed.”

His good friend said, “Why are you depressed?”

He said, “Because this week, nobody died.”442

[Materialism, Deception of; Money; Perspective, Need for]

Eccl. 5:10; 1 Tim. 6:9–10

MANY of us were like the dog in the fable carrying a juicy steak across a bridge. As he walked and crossed the bridge, he looked over and saw the reflection of his face with the steak in his mouth. He thought it was another dog with a bigger steak. So he went after the bigger steak and got neither.443

[Greed; Materialism, Deception of; Money, Love of]

Eccl. 5:10; Luke 12:15; 1 Tim. 6:10