8.10.23 - 1 Timothy 6:10
How do you measure a meaningful life? What's the one step you want to take today to make your life match what you value?
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
When you look at the many great evils in our world, or even the daily controversies in our politics and culture, if you peel back all the layers of the onion you almost always will get to the same core issue: greed, the selfish desire for material or social gain.
Greed, or “the love of money,” creates so much evil because it becomes an end in and of itself, replacing more noble and righteous ends.
When accumulating wealth or power is one’s end, one’s priorities and awareness becomes insular–empathy and compassion become suffocated, generosity unnatural, truthfulness more tenuous.
Greed has an effective power of getting us to wander away from that good fruit of the Spirit, leaving ourselves and others around us pierced with many pains.
How might you find fullness by turning some of your inward focus outward? Who around you needs to be shown kindness?
--Evan Amo