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You got the thing. The feeling lasted about a week. Now you need the next thing. And the next thing. And the next thing.
Greed doesn't look like Scrooge meticulously counting stacks of money. It looks like normal people who can never quite settle into what they already have. There's always a next purchase, a next raise, a next goal to hit. The finish line keeps moving. And the chase will wear you down eventually.
Paul is precise about where the danger lives: "For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows" (1 Timothy 6:10, NLT). He doesn't say having things is wrong. He says the love of it, the craving for it, the chasing of it, is what wounds you. There's a difference between a goal and an obsession. One guides you; the other eats away at you.
Name what you're currently chasing. Ask yourself: when I get it, will I actually stop? If the answer is no, something else is going on—and that's worth bringing to God.
Pray: God, show me where I've been chasing things that can't actually satisfy me. Help me hold what I have with open hands and find my security in you rather than in what I can accumulate. Amen.