"The LORD is like a strong tower, where the righteous can go and be safe. Rich people, however, imagine that their wealth protects them like high, strong walls round a city."

(Proverbs 18.10-11 GNB)

Wealth misleads in more ways than one. It gives out the perception of security that makes people do and say things that are not the wisest in the long term. And the pursuit of wealth distracts people from focusing on the LORD.

"I repeat: it is much harder for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle."

(Matthew 19.24 GNB)

Dear God,
please help me focus on you
and you alone

Related: The eye of a needle (3)