Luke 20:46-47
46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; 47 Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

Luke 21:1-4
1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. 2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. 3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: 4 For all these have of their abundance
cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

Have you ever looked at how much time you spend doing nothing or how much money you spend trying to gain time? What it all boils down to is do you realize the time you’ve wasted and the money spent doing it? Did you ever think about what would have happened in your life if you only had put your time and money into your spiritual growth, instead of your fleshly growth?

Mark 8:35-37
35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. 36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

I know, its hard sometimes to let go of your soul, and your heart, and your money and your time.

Luke 14:28
28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

What would we say if our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ said to the Father that the cost was too great for us and the time was to much? What could we say? If God paid the ultimate sacrifice by giving us His only begotten Son Jesus Christ and didn’t think twice, how much more are we to do?

Shall we rob God as in the book of Malachi 3:8-18:
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

Galatians 6:7-10 says:
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

For extra reading: Matthew 25:14-30. Amen.