(112) Heart or wallet.

If instead of your heart you have a wallet in mind,
they’ll talk about your price,
Not your spiritual values.

References:

  • Wealth is good when there is no sin; but poverty is evil by the standards of the proud. The heart of a man changes his countenance, either for good or for evil. (Sir 13:30-31)

  • How blessed is he who considers the helpless; the Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble. (Ps 41:1)

  • Do not trust in oppression and do not vainly hope in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart upon them. (Ps 62:10)

  • If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him? (1 John 3:17)

  • Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. (Matt 6:19-21)

  • Make no mistake: God is not mocked, for a person will reap only what he sows, because the one who sows for his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows for the spirit will reap eternal life from the spirit. (Gal 6:7-8)

  • Slaves, be obedient to your human masters with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ, not only when being watched, as currying favor, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, willingly serving the Lord and not human beings, knowing that each will be requited from the Lord for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free. Masters, act in the same way toward them, and stop bullying, knowing that both they and you have a Master in heaven and that with him there is no partiality. (Eph 6:5-9)

  • So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’ or ‘What are we to wear?’ All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom (of God) and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil. (Matt 6:31-34)

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