Be Still And Know

Hebrews 13:5 Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.” As a little boy it was a fantastic moment when I had enough money to buy a Mars bar. I assumed that the perfect world must be the one in which you could buy lots of Mars Bars. I thought of a friend of ours who had a lot of money and guessed that he would be able to buy a Mars Bar every hour; I thought that must be the very best life! Young as I was I had fallen for the materialist lie that says the objective of life is always to acquire more. But the way to peace and true contentment is to be satisfied with what you have. The advertising industry does everything it can to persuade us that that is not the case; we need to be strong and resolute to stand up against the continual flood of images and words that encourage us to want more of everything. Our verse today gives us a very powerful reason for being content with what we have: unlike money, God will never let us down. Th