Dirge #2: Lovers of Money


"It is MY money and I want it NOW!" the face on the TV screams.
The god of this world wants to show you how you can fulfill your wildest dreams.
You lover of money think it's sweeter than honey!
Such a slave to cash, can't you see it's just trash?
When you have it you think life is sunny.
You dream of the things that your money can buy if only you had it to spend,
So you grab and you snatch, you beg and you cry, you borrow from every friend.
There's never enough, more money for stuff!
If you could get rich without working a stitch
You'd be happy then, bold and tough.
So many people now covet more gold, they forget soon their Heavenly Father.
Numb to His Spirit their souls soon are sold; they either don't know or don't bother.
What good will it do when this life is through?
You'll stop being jolly when you see your folly,
There is only one wealth that is true.
So seek you first the Kingdom of God, so seek you riches in Heaven;
Depend on Him always and always be awed, and watch as desire's unleavened.
Don't be so greedy, you'll always be needy;
The things of this Earth are surely not worth
An eternity of dead entreaties.
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2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, 
proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
ungrateful, unholy, 
heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control,
brutal, not loving good, 
treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, 
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 
having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. 
Avoid such people.
2 Timothy 3:2-5

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