People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and
destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
I Timothy 6:9-10 NIV
Many people have misquoted this passage. Money is not evil. Money can be used for many good things. The responsibility of wealth, I am told, is awesome. God gives
wealth to some. As good stewards they are to use this wealth wisely.
It is the 'love' of money the is the root of many evils. Greed is the problem. How far will one go to get money? How far will one go to keep money? How much does money influence our thinking and way of life? One must control their greed. We can be content with
what God has given us. We can share what we have with others. Money can not be a prime motivating factor in our life.
The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more.
St. Thomas Fuller
Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman ©
November 14
"...Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses...Hasn't He also spoken through
us?" (Numbers 12:2).
Moses' sister Miriam and his brother Aaron were not about to let Moses have a higher position before their Lord.
Jealousy among religious leaders is nothing new, apparently. Perhaps Miriam tried to conceal her envy by criticizing Moses'
marriage. Paul was concerned about these matters, too: "For I am afraid that...when I come...there may be strife,
jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances..." (2 Corinthians 12:20 NAS).
It's enough to tear out the very heart of God and man--and the church.
Pat Nordman ©
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"I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham." - Zephaniah 1:5
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"And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn." - Genesis 29:26
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The idolater who distinctly gives himself to his false god, has one sin less than he who brings his polluted and detestable sacrifice unto the temple of the Lord, while his heart is with the world and the sins thereof. |
The cross must be carried before the crown can be worn. We must follow our Lord in his humiliation, or we shall never rest with him in glory.
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November 14 Acts 14:1 - 16:40
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A prominent society man asked a bishop whether it was according to the rules of etiquette to say grace at a banquet table. The clergyman replied: "I do not know much about etiquette, but I remember seeing on the wall of a farmer's house a picture showing mules and oxen at a crib. These were devouring the fodder and scattering some beneath their feet, and over the picture was this inscription: Who without prayer
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...and by his light I walked through darkness! JOB 29:3 NIV
Don't Blame Me by Pat Nordman
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How preposterous! "You know the people. . .that they are prone to evil" v.22. Aaron said nothing about the mold he made or the graving tool he used. Aaron blamed society and we're still doing it. Give the crowd what they want and then blame them when the gold and what we in our finite wisdom thought was good for them finally destroys them. Actually, our progenitor Adam started the blame game: "The man said, `The woman you put here with me --she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it'" Genesis 3:12. Eve took it from there. We have all sinned--and we have all blamed nature and them. "They" made us do it. Society makes us murderers and adulterers because it makes such stringent laws, so we reason. Moses literally broke the commandments in indignation at the sin he witnessed; we break God's commandments in indignation that our so-called freedom is curtailed and then we blame others when that so-called freedom grows a bumper crop of unexpected problems. "But they all alike began to make excuses" Luke 14:18. Everyone does it, so it can't be too wrong for us to do it; We're victims of a corrupt society; God put us in the furnace of affliction and we came out burned. At one time, children's shirts were sold that had emblazoned on them, "The devil made me do it." That's as good an excuse as all the others combined. Someone described an alibi as an excuse that's cooked up, but is always half-baked. Benjamin Franklin made a couple of observations that have stood the test of time and human nature: "The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse" and "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." Send a note to Pat Nordman , the writer of this devotion. |
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