"Believest thou that there is no God? I say unto you, Nay, thou knowest that there is a God, but thou lovest that lucre more than him."
Alma 11:24
I think this is one thing that we have to watch for and fight in our lives... the tendency to let things take God's place as the central, primary focus of our hearts and minds. Lucre (a negative word for money) is something we have to work with in our lives in order to survive, and it isn't inherently evil... but as 1 Timothy 6:10 says "the love of money" definitely can be, because we end up loving it more than we love God, and more than we love other people. In that sense it is probably in the same category as most of the things in our lives... if we use them for God's purposes, then all is well, but if they become an end in themselves, then they can impede our progress.
Today, let's make sure not to let money get in the way of our progression. Let's put God first, and let everything else fall into place or drop out of our lives, as God wills.
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