Job was a rich man and was thought well of by God.
Parents are encouraged to "lay up" for their children.
Wasn't "Uncle Harry" supposed to have made millions by giving good service to his clients?
When the focus of life becomes money, that's when someone won't get into heaven (ie enter into the blessings now, perhaps). The castigation is of those who have the means (money) but refuse to use it to help those in need.
If instead people who make lots of money are happy to give some/lots of it out again to support those in need, that's walking godly.
This passage is challenging people to think where their focus really is at - whether their treasures are laid up in heaven or whether they are laid up earthly where rust and moth can corrode them.
You can look forward to seeing your aunt at some stage in the future.
And if you are so foolish as to give away ALL your wordly things, you will be the one with the need not the one with the blessing.
I don't know for sure, but if I had to guess, I'd bet that whoever wrote that particular passage of scripture wasn't a wealthy man - at least in his own eyes...
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Job was a rich man and was thought well of by God.
Parents are encouraged to "lay up" for their children.
Wasn't "Uncle Harry" supposed to have made millions by giving good service to his clients?
When the focus of life becomes money, that's when someone won't get into heaven (ie enter into the blessings now, perhaps). The castigation is of those who have the means (money) but refuse to use it to help those in need.
If instead people who make lots of money are happy to give some/lots of it out again to support those in need, that's walking godly.
This passage is challenging people to think where their focus really is at - whether their treasures are laid up in heaven or whether they are laid up earthly where rust and moth can corrode them.
You can look forward to seeing your aunt at some stage in the future.
And if you are so foolish as to give away ALL your wordly things, you will be the one with the need not the one with the blessing.
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I don't know for sure, but if I had to guess, I'd bet that whoever wrote that particular passage of scripture wasn't a wealthy man - at least in his own eyes...
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