February 9, better than money, sex, and power.

Do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward, Hebrews 10.35.

We need to ponder the superiority of God as our great reward over all that the world

has to offer.

If we don't, we will love the world like everyone else and live like everyone else.

So take the things that drive the world and ponder how much better and more abiding

God is, take money or sex or power and think about them in relation to death.

Death will take away every one of them.

If that is what you live for, you won't get much and what you get, you lose.

But God's treasure is vastly superior and it lasts.

It goes beyond death.

It's better than money because God owns all the money and He is our Father.

We are His airs.

All things are yours and you are Christ and Christ is God's first Corinthians 3, 22 and

23.

It's better than sex.

Jesus never had sexual relations and He was the most full and complete human whoever

will exist.

Sex is a shadow, an image of a greater reality, of a relationship and a pleasure.

That will make the most exquisite sex seem like a yawn.

The reward of God is better than power.

There is no greater human power than to be a child of the Almighty God.

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