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Hope for Today: A Daily Devotion from Reasons for Hope*Jesus

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“Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have.” Hebrews 13:5

“But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” 1 Timothy 6:9-10

A covetous man is called an idolater and has no part in the kingdom of God; but who believes that he is covetous? The charge attaches to everyone who is not content with what he has. And what says the apostle of such as will be rich? They fall. Not only they may fall — but they actually do fall; nor can the fall be avoided, if men are determined that they will be rich.

O reader, it is fit that you should take alarm! Get the covetous desires of your heart subdued and kept disentangled from worldly things; for who knows how soon you must go out of this world and leave everything behind? Away from it with your heart, else your death will be very hard. The Christian’s motto is, “God and enough”: for he that has God is content and, consequently, always rich enough, even in poverty. He must be a covetous man indeed, who has not enough, having God.

O Lord, make me so free by faith from the love of earthly things, that I may equally praise You, whether You be pleased to give me something or take it away from me; and that I may never covetously refuse that to others or to myself, which You have given for my own and my neighbor’s comfort. O Jesus, let me so realize You as mine, as to rise superior to all temporal things, rejoicing in You as my portion!

Devotion by Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky (1690—1774)

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