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Proverbs chapter 23, verse 5. It says, when you

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set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly

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makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies

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toward the heavens. Well, this verse is definitely

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talking about money, but also it's talking about

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focus. It's about what you give your attention

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to, where you put your eyes. And so it seems

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it's saying that if you put your eyes a lot on

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something, you could say any blessing, not just

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money. If you put your eyes and focus your eyes

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on that thing, if you want more money, you want

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more better relations, or you want people to

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behave a certain way or want something to go

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on in your job, whatever. And as that thing comes,

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you're very focused on it. Then this verse is

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basically saying the tendency of it is to take

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flight and to be gone. When it comes to money,

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money is always kind of coming or going. The

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state of how much money we have is changing on

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a fairly regular basis. The resources that we

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receive from God, the blessings that we receive

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from God, have a pretty select purpose. They

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are that we might share with others as God leads,

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that we might glorify God. for the receiving

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and use those blessings to build our relationship

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with him to the best of our ability, that we

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might always look back to the giver. The tendency

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might be to get focused on the blessing, turn

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it into an idol, and it's just not meant to be.

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We don't worship things, good, bad, ugly, whatever.

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If there's a lot of it, if there isn't, if it

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seems powerful, if it doesn't, if it seems like

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you need it, if it seems like you don't, whatever.

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We don't worship those things. They are literally

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worth nothing to us compared to the God of heaven

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who gives us all that we desire if our hearts

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are in line with his desire for us. Praise the

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Lord today.