Job was a man who was not only considered blameless and upright, but he was a man of great wealth. Not only did he have many material possessions, but he had a wife, 7 sons and 3 daughters. What fun that would have been at their family gatherings. :) He was certainly blessed beyond measure.
Job loved God and his family very much, and was very concerned with their spiritual well-being. He regularly offered burt offerings to God according to the number of each of his children just in case they had sinned and cursed God in their hearts.
Although Job was a man of great wealth, that wasn't his priority.
His devotion to God was first and foremost and then his family came next.
He knew that wealth meant nothing. That it could be taken away at any moment.
He knew that His relationship with God and his families spiritual well-being was far more important than any amount of prosperity.
Are you chasing after money?
Is your relationship with the Lord taking a back seat to your endeavors to obtain wealth?
Is your family suffering because of of your desire to have more?
Money is necessary, but it should NEVER be the priority!!!
Now godliness with contentment is great gain.
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
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, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:6-10
Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease!
Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 23:4-5
Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, then all these thing will be added unto you.
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Matthew 6:33-34
"Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
"You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
"And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
"that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.
"For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do--to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him--
"then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.
Deuteronomy 11:18-23
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