Unsatisfied Love

"Unsatisfied Love"

Scripture Reading:
Ecclesiastes 5:10  (HCSB) The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income. This too is futile.

Devotional Reading:

The place was Chicago, Illinois; the year was 1923. Nine of the world’s wealthiest and most successful men gathered for a meeting at the city’s Edgewater Beach Hotel. Almost anyone in that day would have exchanged places with any of these well-known executives. They were powerful and rich. They had the world by the tail. But only 25 years later, all but two were dead. None had lived the easy life their tremendous resources seemed to promise. Charles Schwab, the president of the nation’s largest independent steel company, lived on borrowed money the last five years of his life and died bankrupt. Samuel Insul, the president of a giant utility company, died a penniless fugitive from justice in a foreign country. Gas company executive Howard Hopson suffered from insanity. Wheat speculator Arthur Cotton died destitute. Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, was released from Sing Sing prison. Albert Fall, a member of the president’s cabinet, was pardoned from prison so he could die at home. Wall Street’s greatest bear, Jesse Livermore, committed suicide, as did Ivan Krueger, the head of a great monopoly. Bank president Leon Fraser also took his own life. The most dangerous love affair any man or woman will experience in life is a love affair with money. It is a deceitful object of desire, because it can never deliver what it promises. If you make money your primary aim, you are setting yourself up for a life of heartache.  “Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven,  where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also".

Keep the Son in your eyes,

Pastor Ben J Lahay

Galatians 2:20