Where your treasure is…

So last night we began a series with our youth based upon SYM’s Backward$ series.  The series is about our quest for stuff which inevitable affects the people that we were intended to be.  We were created in God’s image, and among them any things that God is, he is generous.  God has given so much to all of us.  Since we were created in his image, we were created to be generous and giving.  One of the scriptures was from Ecclesiastes 5:10 which says, Those who love money will NEVER have enough.  How absurd to think that wealth bring true happiness. When I was studying this, it hit me that you never get enough of the things you love.  When your first fall in love, you want so much to be with you rsignificant other.  You can’t get enough.  You learn every little mannerism and interest so that you can know that person better.  If you love clothes, you can never have enough clothes.  Your closet always has room for nice, new, stylish clothes.  If you love money, you can never get enough.  Bernie Madoff ringing a bell?  But you don’t have to be rich to love money.  Poor folks can love money, too.  Either way, we were created to love God, not money.  So if we truly love God we should always seek to be with the one we love.  We were created so that we can never get enough of God.  When we truly love God, everything that we do revolves around him, his word, and his will.