The Big Robbery

Proverbs 1:19 (KJV) So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

This month I am reading Proverbs from the New Living Translation (NLT).  First a disclaimer. I am not a big fan of the NLT.  I don’t consider it a translation, it is a paraphrase.  If it admitted it was a paraphrase, I might find a use for it more often, but I don’t like hiding behind phony titles.  That being said, it did have an interesting paraphrase of this verse,

Proverbs 1:19 (NLT) Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life.

Focusing on the financial aspect of life as your main motivation, robs you of real life.  I like the use of that word, “robs”.

Again note that this is not saying that money is the root of all evil, it is the priority of money, not the quantity.

So?  What is the love of your life?  What is your number one priority?  What makes everything else get in the backseat?  If you could answer that honestly, you may be on the road to revival.