Blessed When We Stop Sinning! Turn to God for All! Give Thanks to God Always! Money and Luxury are Not as Important as God and Heaven!

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction! 

⏤ Thomas Watson

Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots. 

- 1 Kings 4:26

The Mornings With God App had some nice quotes, Bible verse, and a write-up that is a great reminder of how we live! The App shares the story of Solomon. It said, " Solomon was very rich. Everything was on the most magnificent scale. This made his reign very splendid, but in this luxury lurked danger. It is sad when in a community there is business prosperity while character is deteriorating. A poet says:

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 

Where wealth accumulates and men decay.” 

The luxury of Solomon’s court, with the vast outlay of money, necessarily incurred heavy taxation, which soon became burdensome, and led ultimately to serious disaffection. An old legend says that in the heart of the staff on which Solomon leaned there was a worm which secretly was eating away the strength of the staff. The legend has its meaning in the fact that in Solomon’s prosperity there lurked the insidious evil which, by and by, wrought ruin to the king’s own character and disruption to his kingdom."

We need to stop sinning! We need to stop the mediocrity! Stop living for wealth and material goods. We need to turn to God! Stop sinning! Pray to Him! Give thanks for all always! We need to build alters of thanks always for God and all He does for us! All the possessions of the world cannot get us into Heaven, we need to work at that! Praising Him, living for Him! Doing His will and not ours! Know when to step down and stop, turn to God and focus in Him alone! Afterall, our ultimate goal should be to get into Heaven! It is well when we trust in God and follow Him, not the wealth and material things of this world!