Greed causes fighting; trusting the Lord leads to prosperity. (Proverbs 28:25)Everybody wants more stuff, no matter what they may say. If they say otherwise, they are full of baloney.
But how much do you want that stuff? Do you want it enough to steal or kill for it?
You want a new car, or new clothes. You don’t have the money. How do you get it? There are a few ways.
One of which is for someone rich to die and leave you a lot of money. Chances are great that won’t happen.
Maybe you can find some money on the ground. No, probably not.
You can steal it from someone. That is not only not good but is illegal, so chances are great that you will get caught and be in jail. Maybe that is why you’re in here now.
If you steal the money, you usually have someone else that is helping you and it is easy to get into an argument with your helpers, your gang, your posse, whatever. You have to share with them in a fair way or they will be mad. And if one of them talks about what you have done, you are in jail again.
Or you can work for it. That is the hard one because it takes several things. One is that it takes a while in any job to save up money to get something. Unless you have all your food and clothing and rent and all taken care of, it will be a long time until you get any money saved up.
The second problem is that you always find something else you want too and you buy that. Then you don’t have any money again and have to start over.
But working for it does something the other two do not do. You feel like someone good because you worked hard for this money and you can buy whatever you want with it. There is pride in doing something yourself.
And that pride, if you keep on doing those good things, will bring prosperity. You will do well.
Otherwise you fight with others over the money you take, you fight with yourself because you feel like junk, you sure fight with the law, the DA, other inmates.
Sometimes, no matter how great something may be, it isn’t worth it unless you do the right thing.
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