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(Jan. 22, 2026 – The Encouragement of the Holy Spirit)
Do not set your heart on earthly money, nor care about outward fame, status, or wealth.
The Bible says, “You rich people, weep and howl, because misery is coming upon you; your wealth has rotted, and your clothes have been eaten by moths.” The rich people referred to in this passage are those who spend all their days under the sun on a world that will one day pass away. They stay busy with what people consider valuable, striving hard, working to earn and store up wealth, making money, fame, and status the source of security in their hearts. They value the things of the world, living only for pleasure, setting the enjoyment of this life as their goal, indulging their own desires and following whatever their hearts want. They live luxurious and extravagant lives, shaping themselves into people who are honored in the world and regarded as noble in the eyes of others. These people hand their hearts over to the flesh and to the world to be fed, allowing their hearts to gradually be filled with material things and personal desires, putting identity, status, wealth, and worldly glory first. Yet inwardly, they have already been eroded by sin and have gradually become numb toward injustice and toward money gained through unrighteousness. Everything they rely on and exhaust their strength to pursue does not feed life; instead, it devours life. In God’s eyes, it is useless and without value and has nothing to do with the blessings of the kingdom to come. Even if they labor their whole lives for worldly things, in the end they fall into God’s judgment and recompense.
But those who take refuge in the Lord must not be like this. What we rely on is not the world; our hearts must look up to the God who created us and gave us life. In everything we should humbly say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” We must not be like those who have no God in their hearts, thinking they can control the future, planning their own lives, deciding where they will go today or tomorrow and how long they will stay there, doing business for themselves and earning money. Yet how can anyone know what tomorrow will bring? Even if a person’s plans are thorough, arrangements complete, and experience rich, tomorrow is still unknown and uncertain. Human life is extremely short. The days we live are not something we can boast about or control, because all authority belongs to God.
Nothing and no one can replace God’s place in our hearts. It is better to choose to let God feed our lives than to let the world, which leads people away from the truth and toward destruction, feed us. Be willing to let God train your faith so that your soul may become holy and strong, becoming a life that God sees as valuable and pleasing. Value God’s righteousness and judgment, and prepare for the eternal life to come.
In this evil generation, discipline yourself, stay watchful, examine yourself often, do not be stained by impurity, and do not share in sin, but instead share in God’s holiness.
If Christians receive wealth on earth and live peaceful and smooth days, that also comes from God’s grace. Yet even in comfort, you must remain watchful and not become self-satisfied because of wealth. Even if you are wealthy, your heart must still fear God. Do not boast in what you have gained, but acknowledge that every gift comes from God. And everything you have received from God, use it out of love and compassion to support the weak and those in need.
Scripture
James
Chapter 5 Verses 1–3, 5
“Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.”
James
Chapter 4 Verses 13–15
“Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.”
Colossians
Chapter 3 Verses 1–6
“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.”
1 Timothy
Chapter 6 Verses 17–19
“Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.”
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Conclude your prayer with, “Amen.”
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