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Too Early To Celebrate?
(Matt 4:4). There are physical needs and spiritual
needs, and neither can take the place of the other.
We would also do well to remember to worship the
Giver and not the gift. Money does not serve as a deity.
In the basic rules of living, the Ten Commandments,
this is made quite clear (Exodus 20:3):
"Thou shalt have
no other gods before me."
We have strayed too far if
we cannot stop to remember the true source to our
prosperity (Deuteronomy 8:18):
''But thou shalt
remember the Lord thy God: for it is He that giveth the
power to get wealth.
... "
Can we ever get enough to be satisfied? Solomon
didn't think so, and he had great wealth (Ecclesiastes
5: 10):
''He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with
silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this
also is vanity.
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