How much is enough?<\/p>\n
—the rich person says, ‘A little more money’<\/p>\n
—the government says, ‘A little more taxes, then a lot more taxes’<\/p>\n
—the addict says, ‘Gotta have more, right now’<\/p>\n
—the aspiring dictator, ‘More power, more lies, more power, more . . .’<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
How much is too much?<\/p>\n
—when the rich person becomes selfish and blind to needs at his door<\/p>\n
—when the government enslaves the people<\/p>\n
—when the addict hits bottom or the bottom of a casket<\/p>\n
—when the dictator murders millions and kills himself<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
What about you and me?<\/p>\n
—“If you keep more than you need, it is sin.” (guest preacher at Temple Bible Church)<\/p>\n
—VERY LITTLE (best answer to both questions above)<\/p>\n
—“Be content with food and clothing.”\u00a0 (Jesus)<\/p>\n
—“It is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than . . . ”\u00a0 (Jesus)<\/p>\n
—We learn<\/span> what we need when we lose<\/span> everything we don’t need.<\/p>\n —We’re content<\/span> with what we need when we give<\/span> everything we don’t need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How much is enough? —the rich person says, ‘A little more money’ —the government says, ‘A little more taxes, then a lot more taxes’ —the addict says, ‘Gotta have more, right now’ —the aspiring dictator, ‘More power, more lies, more power, more . . .’ How much is too much? —when the rich person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}