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This week we'll hear another poem from Paul reminding us what it truly means to be rich.

Here's this week's Wednesday's word.

I ended last Wednesdays' devotional with the famous words of Deuteronomy 31-8.

Quote, it is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.

Do not fear or be dismayed." End quote. Did you know this powerful Old Testament theology is applied to money, wealth, and riches in the New Testament? Quote, keep your life free from love of money

and be content with what you have, for he has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.

So he can confidently say,

the Lord is my helper, I will not fear. What can man do to me? Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God, consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and

strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods,

which have not benefited those devoted to them." Hebrews 13, 5 through 9. Being rich is not a

money matter, not big houses, not big bank accounts, not expensive cars,

not collections of luxuries.

You can have all these things and more, and be sadly and miserably poor.

Building a warehouse of cash and material things is not a pathway to real wealth.

Many have tried, seduced by feelings of riches, hoping the next thing will satisfy,

only to feel empty inside, poor of heart. Poverty is a life of chasing things that have no

ability to satisfy. Being rich, experiencing wealth that is satisfying, lasting, transformative,

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