Spiritual And Material Needs

I Timothy 6:6-10

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

To seek God's face and follow His ways, obeying His commands, letting Him satisfy us, that is "great gain," that is tremendous riches.

For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.

We're all born naked, and if some seem to be born with a silver spoon in their mouth, that spoon is of this world and will remain with this world when we leave it.

But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.

Wow, not even a roof over our heads is mentioned here. As long as we have food to nourish us and clothing to cover our nakedness and keep us warm, nothing else is really necessary.

People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.

When we want what we want and leave God out of the picture, focusing on this world and the things of this world.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

Loving money instead of loving God will lead us to wanting what money can buy, which cannot satisfy, so it leads to all kinds of perversions and excesses to try to fill the emptiness.

Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

They have "shot themselves in the foot." Some soldiers have done this with the idea that a wound would get them sent home, so they live the rest of their lives in the prison of pain. Focusing only on this world will be self-defeating; real life is spirit, and this world is material. There is no life in the physical, all life is spiritual: When the spirit leaves the body, it is dead.