It blew my mind to read that Mark Zuckerberg lost 15 billion....BILLION (!)...dollars in one day last week!! (And by the way, when I left Facebook about 9 months ago I always believed Facebook was on its way out, ANYway. Go ahead, call me a "rat deserting a sinking ship"....I don't mind, Lol!!)
Getting back to Zuckerberg, I can't even imagine having that kind of money, never mind LOSING it. But his experience is a great reminder of things God says in the Bible....don't trust in the uncertainty of riches...riches take to themselves wings, and so on. Money itself is not evil, but the LOVE of money...the lust for it...the idolatry of it...can lead us away from God and into all kinds of sin.
Read Psalm 37 and 73. When this brief life is over, those who have untold wealth without God will find that they've gained the world, and lost their eternal souls. PITY them, don't envy them!!
Money can be used to do much good for the glory of God and benefit of others, but most often it is MISused and winds up to be a curse, not a blessing. I took this pic of myself with (mostly obsolete) coins from all over the world to illustrate the point that WE MUST HOLD MONEY WITH A VERY LOOSE HAND. If we hold it too tightly, that means it "holds" US in its grip, you see.
In my devotions this morning, Spurgeon said it well: "It is a very difficult thing to handle gold without allowing it to adhere to your fingers and, when it gets into your purse, you need much grace to prevent it getting into your heart." As for Zuckerberg, we should pray that God will bring him low enough that he will seek HIM (not money) for meaning in his life...but not SO low that he will jump off of a building, or something.
He still has over 60 Billion...BILLION (!)...left, so both possible results seem a long way off from ever happening. But may he learn from his loss last week to hold what he has left very, very loosely.
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