It is a lifestyle shaped by the unholy self-love trinity: my wants, my needs, and my feelings. Its life has turned inward, when we have been created to live an upward (love for God) and an outward (love for neighbor) life.
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The lack of humility that fuels discontentment is about more than being a bit full of ourselves and bragging too much it’s about a heart that has been captured by self-glory. The love of money sits right in the middle of a lifestyle that forgets eternity, lives selfishly, prioritizes the present, and is more focused on physical comfort than on eternal destiny.
He can’t handle the guy next to him having what he has been unable to acquire, and his discontentment will ultimately bring him to question the goodness of God. He lives as though he is entitled to things to which he’s not entitled, and because he feels entitled, he thinks it’s his right to demand them. He really is convinced that he deserves what he doesn’t actually deserve. He really does think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But the discontented person lacks something more fundamental and life-shaping than happiness the discontented person lacks humility. For most of us, it means little more than wishing we had more, and the only negative aspect of our complaining is that we won’t be the life of the party. Discontentment seems like an inconsequential sin. I don’t think that we value-rate discontentment properly. Discontentment is the soil in which the love of money grows. Paul begins his discussion with contentment because the roots of our problem with money are found there. The root system of the love of money runs deeper and wider through the soil of the human heart than we tend to think. And the love of money is a worship problem (“But those who desire to be rich. The love of money is a fallen world problem (“. for we brought nothing into this world”). The love of money is also an identity problem (“. The love of money is fundamentally not an overspending problem it is a contentment problem (“Godliness with contentment is great gain”). Consider the profound connections Paul makes in this provocative little passage. If you read those words carefully, you begin to get a clue that the love of money is connected to things significantly bigger than money. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. Godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.
So it is important to take time to unpack the spiritual dynamics of the love of money. And on the surface it doesn’t seem that loving money could lead to all other kinds of evil.
It seems as if there are all kinds of things more evil then loving money.
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