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

Do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward, Hebrews 1035.

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 heirs. All things are yours and you are Christ's and Christ is God's.

1 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.

Do you not know that we are to judge angels, 1 Corinthians 6.3?

The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne as I also conquered and sat down with my father on his throne, Revelation 321.

And so it goes on and on.

Everything the world has to offer, God is better and more abiding. There is no

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