The Demon of "Get Mo"!

So, put everything evil out of your life: sexual sin, doing anything immoral, letting sinful thoughts control you, and wanting things that are wrong.  And don’t keep wanting “more and more” for yourself, “which is the same as worshipping a false god”.  (Colossians 3:5)

 

The Demon of “Get Mo”! 

 

Our Daily Nugget 

is telling us that, to want more and more “always” for ourself is idolatry, 

the same as worshipping a false god.

 

In our society, we do not look at our “desire” to get more and more for ourselves as a “bad” thing.  Actually, we look at it as a bad thing if you do not have a desire to get more and more for yourself.  According to God’s Instruction Manual, the Bible, to always want more and more for ourselves is idolatry, the same as worshiping a false god.

 

The first of the Ten Commandments,

Thou shall have no other “god” before me.

To always want more and more for ourselves is to live in disobedience to the

First Commandment.

 

To always want more and more for ourselves requires all our “focus”.  The fulfilling of this desire leaves no room to desire God.  In “God’s Sight”, we are placing the “more and more” above or ahead of or instead of God.  This makes God our enemy.

 

Purpose - The Word or the World?

The Word – Do not “Love” the world nor anything in it.

The World – Accumulate as much as you can as long as you live.

Then worry about who will get it.  Solomon says that this is useless, vanity,

just like “chasing the wind”.

 

Ask yourself; 

“Why” do I always want more and more for myself?

Paul is telling us that this desire is the desire of the “old creature”.

 

Paul is telling us that, as a new creature, we “live for what is in heaven”, where Christ is.  We are to “think” “only” about what is up there.  This is the way Jesus lived, Jesus is our example.  Jesus was not always trying to get more and more for himself.  Jesus “thought” about the work God sent him to do.

 

Jesus called John the Baptist, the best man who ever lived.  John the Baptist, according to the way he lived and dressed, and did not spend his time getting more and more for himself; would probably not even be welcomed among us.  John the Baptist “thought” only about the work God sent him to do.  His “living” showed what was most important to him.  It was not the world; he did not love the world nor anything in it.

 

He lived contrary to our culture and traditions, he was “peculiar”!

Do you trust your 401k to sustain you, or do you trust Jesus to sustain you?

Our “life”, our “living” answers this question.

Jesus knows!

 

There is a “reason”, a “motive”, that leads us to always want more and more for ourselves.    Working, living to get more and more for ourselves lets us know that we have placed our Faith in the world.  

 

Kingdom Citizens is in the world but not of the world.

This means that our goals, our desires, our focus, that which is most important to us, is found in the Bible, in Jesus, in being like him.

 

Ask God to Bless You to Resist the 

“Demon of Get Mo”,

And Watch What Happens.