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An interesting verse today, James 5 .1. In chapter

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5 of the book of James, in verse 1, it says,

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Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries

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which are coming upon you. The truth is, it's

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kind of ironic in a way, because on the one hand,

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people are good at weeping and howling. We want

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to complain about whatever our circumstances

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is. But the truth is, when we're feeling pretty

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rich, that may not be the time at which people

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are jumping on the weeping and moaning bandwagon.

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But we are warned by God that being a little

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too attached to your treasure is a little too

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dangerous for this lifetime. And so we need to

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realize we're all rich in one way or another

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and consider that if you're celebrating your

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riches, you're forgetting. that the author of

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those riches, whatever they might be, is God.

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And Jesus and others, Mary, Zechariah, a variety

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of individuals throughout Scripture, Paul, have

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warned James, this is the brother of Jesus, James,

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warned people, be careful about being rich, being

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excited about being rich, because if you've got

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a little too much, you're in big trouble for

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what's coming ahead of you. I would submit today

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that we're blessed and we should be grateful

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and we should look to God in obedience and in

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repentance and let him teach us how to use each

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of the resources that we've been blessed with.

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James 5 .1, Come now, you rich, weep and howl

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for your miseries are coming upon you. That's

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not going to be me if I can help it. Praise God,

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he's blessed me with a lot of things. I know

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he's blessed you too.