WEALTH;
MATERIALISM; EARTHLY THINGS

Many of us are forgetting the caution of the Lord Jesus that we ought not to set our hearts on earthly things.

He warned that there is a very real danger involved and He said plenty about it in the New Testament.

Jesus said that when wealth becomes our heart’s treasure, our very beings may well be imprisoned within our wealth.

This is the danger: the same heart of man that was made to commune with God and hold fellowship with the Divine Trinity, to soar away to worlds unknown and behold God upon His throne, that same heart may be locked up in a bank vault or in a jewelry box or somewhere else here on earth!

The fashionable woman longing to make the list of the “Ten Best Dressed”—she lives for her jewelry and glamour. And when she puts those jewels into a box at night, she surely imprisons her heart in the same box as she snaps the lid.

So, too, the businessman who doesn’t know how to use the money God allows him to get, and who makes an idol out of it. When he snaps the door of his box in the bank vault, he puts his heart there and locks it up.

Matthew 6:19–21; Luke 12:15–21; Colossians 3:1–4; 1 Timothy 6:17–19; 1 John 2:15–17

The Tozer Pulpit, Volume 1, Book 1, 42, 43.