CURSOR #5: GREED
- MKG
- Jan 7, 2017
- 2 min read
James 4:1-4- “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”
Greed is desiring power or success for yourself over desiring God. Greed is wanting things for our own selfish desires. It is a selfish and materialistic attitude. One might get greed confused with envy. Envy is jealousy that overcomes us over something someone else has, where greed is just intensely longing to have success and power, and doing whatever we can to get there. Being greedy means acting with an attitude of “I must have that or else”. Greed reflects in our words and our actions. When we act out of greed, we act in a selfish, disrespectful way that doesn’t allow God in. We typically act without God because we have to get it our own way. We reflect this selfish attitude because we don’t stop and ask God first. We don’t ask God if the desires in our heart matches His desires for us? Does God want us to be successful? Yes. But in the right ways of course. Intensely desiring wealth and power is not Godly. Wealth doesn’t come from money, success or power, it comes from God. God doesn’t exist where greed exists. One cannot be taking action with God and be greedy. We have to choose power and wealth found from God or power and wealth found from greed. Let’s choose God. Let’s intensely desire what He desires for us, His plan! We can inherit this plan by letting Him write! True power, wealth, and success will come from doing so. Get your journaling section ready to reflect on today’s cursor! What is your heart strongly desiring? Are your thoughts selfish? Or, are they thoughts that are pure and desiring God’s plan? Do you desire worldly wealth or Godly wealth?
MKG
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