"How Hard It Is For The Rich To Enter The Kingdom Of GOD!'

Satan's baits!
(John Angell James, 1785-1859)

"How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom 

of GOD! Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go 

through the eye of a needle than for a rich man 

to enter the kingdom of GOD." Luke 18:24-25 

Bring up your children with low notions 

of the importance of riches and worldly show, 

and of the power which these things have 

either to give respectability to the character, 

or to procure happiness.

Do not let them hear you magnify 

the value of wealth by your words--

nor see you do it by your actions. 

Avoid a servile attention 

to the rich and great--

do not point to them as the individuals 

most to be admired and envied. Do not 

have an undue solicitude about grandeur 

of abode or furniture. 

From the time that they are capable 

of receiving an idea or an impression, 

teach them that it is godly character 

that constitutes true respectability.

Remind them of the danger of riches, 

and that they are satan's baits to tempt 

men to love the world and lose their souls!

Not that you should produce a cynical 

disposition towards either riches or the rich; 

much less repress industry, and foster indolence. 

No, but encourage them to consider and seek 

wealth, rather as a means of usefulness, than 

a source of personal gratification.

"People who want to get rich fall into 

temptation and a trap and into many foolish 

and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin 

and destruction. For the love of money is a root 

of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, 

have wandered from the faith and pierced 

themselves with many griefs." 

1 Timothy 6:9-10

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