This is the difference between wanting a thing for your own sake and wanting a thing for the Lord’s sake. The world’s idea is that we take what we can get and make a life out of it. The Lord’s idea is that we take the things that He gives us for His purposes and use them for those purposes. It’s generally a more frugal idea too. We shouldn’t, as in Marxist or capitalist concepts, even want so many dollars’ worth of riches for their own sake, but rather for what the Lord has prepared us to do with it. People with a forte for job creation will have more dollars than those with a forte for something else — and all may be rich in the way the Lord has assigned. Thinking in heaven’s terms embarrasses the terms of the world.
amen!