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I'm thinking today of Proverbs chapter 23, verse

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5. It says, When you set your eyes on it, it

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is gone, for wealth certainly makes itself wings,

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like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

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Well, this verse is definitely talking about

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money, but also it's talking about focus. It's

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about what you give your attention to, where

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you put your eyes. And so it seems it's saying

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that if you put your eyes a lot on something,

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you could say any blessing, not just money. If

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you put your eyes and focus your eyes on that

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thing, if you want more money, You want more

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better relationships, or you want people to behave

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a certain way, or you want something to go on

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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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we might glorify God for the receiving and use

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those blessings to build our relationship with

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him to the best of our ability, that we might

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always look back to the giver. The tendency might

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be to get focused on the blessing, turn it into

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an idol, and it's just not meant to be. We don't

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worship things, good, bad, ugly, whatever. If

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

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

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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.