“Turn my heart toward your statutes, and not toward selfish gain.” (Psalm 119:36)
Our hearts are deceitful. We say that we trust in the Lord but we fret and worry about money. Money becomes so important to us that we sometimes scheme and plan how we can acquire more. Sometimes we even plan to get more money through selfish gain.
Today people are always buying lottery tickets which promise big prizes that will take all our worries away and give us peace of mind. Some people fall into the trap because they see it as the only way that they can ever get out of the rut and the helpless state that they find themselves in. "Maybe some day I will win the big prize and then all of my worries will be over" or so they think as they keep buying the tickets. They have heard the lie and bought into the dream, you cannot win if you don't buy a ticket.
But money does not keep our hearts pure. We can be selfish and greedy if we have money or if we don't have money. The dream of hitting it rich gives some people hope. However, our hope is in the Lord and if we put our trust in getting rich some day then we will find our hearts putting money on the throne of our lives. Jesus said that we cannot serve both God and money. Who do you want to have as your master?
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