Tuesday – Pentateuch

Reading – Deuteronomy 17-18

Highlight Verse:

“The king must not take many wives for himself, because they will turn his heart away from the Lord. And he must not accumulate large amounts of wealth in silver and gold for himself.”
‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭17‬:‭17‬ ‭NLT‬‬

King Saul had only one wife. But his heart was never really with God in the first place.

King David had 8 wives. Despite that, he was “a man after God’s own heart.”

King Solomon? – 700 wives and 300 concubines. And he became the wealthiest man alive.

He went from being the wisest man on the planet to compromising his faith to please his wives.

It’s easy to avoid having 700 wives today. That wouldn’t quite be legal, at least here in the US.

But wealth can turn people.

As the Apostle Paul instructed his protege Timothy, “the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil” (1 Timothy 6:10 NLT)

While I’ve been able to avoid amassing large sums of money (at least by American standards)

I still have to be on my guard against the love of money.

Has money (or lust) been a stumbling block in your life?
In what ways can we actively avoid the “love of money?”