Luke 12
Day 5 of 7 · Financial Wisdom
And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.
So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’
CONTEXT
Original word: πλεονεξίας, (pleonexía) · avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion
REFLECTION
Our security is in God, not in what we own.
PRAYER
God, free me from worry about money and make me generous. Amen.
QUESTION
What does contentment look like for you right now?
ONE ACTION TODAY
Talk with someone wise about one money decision.
Reflections are drafts awaiting pastoral review.
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Source
The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible (BSB). Public domain (dedicated to the public domain by BSB Publishing as of April 30, 2023). Source: eBible.org (engbsb). Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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