“Our motto at Measureup is ‘WE ARE NOT GREEDY, JUST COMPETITIVE,'” says the advertisement in our local paper.

What is greed? It is an excessive desire for a lot of things: food, wealth, power and success.

Do I ever like that motto.

What does the Bible say in Luke 12:15?

There we read:

“Then he [Jesus] said to them, ‘Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.'”

“THE LORD

Deuteronomy 28:22

Introduction:

will strike you

• with wasting disease,
• with fever and inflammation,
• with scorching heat and drought,
• with blight and mildew,

End:

which will plague you until you perish.”

“Ein Heiliger auf seinen Knien kann weitersehen als ein Philosoph auf den Zehenspitzen.” – Corrie ten Boom

Yesterday at the Houhora Heads in the Far North of New Zealand not far from Pukenui.

“‘Remember,

Introduction:

O LORD,

• how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and
• have done what is good in your eyes.’

End:

And Hezekiah wept bitterly.”

“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.” – 1 Corinthians 3:11

“And be thankful.” – Colossians 3:15