Set Your Heart On Nobler Things Than Lucre!

If you hunt the butterfly 

of wealth too eagerly!
(Charles Spurgeon, "A Good Start!")

He who loses godliness to gain gold--

is a great cheater of himself.

Keep yourselves entirely for CHRIST. 

Live above the world. Its goods 

will come to you, when you do 

not bid too high for them. 

If you hunt the butterfly 

of wealth too eagerly--

you may spoil it by the grasp 

with which you secure it!

When earthly things are sought 

for as the main object, they are 

degraded into rubbish, and the seeker 

of them has fallen to be like Bunyan's 

man with a muck-rake, turning over 

a dunghill to find nothing. 

Set your heart on nobler 

things than lucre! 

Let us so live that it will be 

safe for GOD to add to us 

the blessings of the present 

life; but that can only be done 

with safety, when we have learned 

to keep the world under our feet.

"Seek first HIS kingdom and 
HIS righteousness--
and all these things will be 
given to you as well." Matthew 6:33

  
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