Warning to the Rich
1 Look here, you rich people: Weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead of you. 2 Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags. 3 Your gold and silver have become worthless. The very wealth you were counting on will eat away your flesh like fire. This treasure you have accumulated will stand as evidence against you on the day of judgment. 4 For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of those who harvest your fields have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
5 You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every desire. You have fattened yourselves for the day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and killed innocent people,[a] who do not resist you.[b]
Footnotes:
a. James 5:6 Or killed the Righteous One.
b. James 5:6 Or Don’t they resist you? or Doesn’t God oppose you? or Aren’t they now accusing you before God?
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5 You have spent your years on earth in luxury, satisfying your every desire. You have fattened yourselves for the day of slaughter.
Time to lose some weight... We need to continually spiritually train, aimed towards being Christ, choosing not to "eat" and "drink" of worldly things, but instead of God's spiritual milk.
Father, thank you for this ability to be fattened for the slaughter, all these blessings that you have given my family. But as Solomon said, its all "meaningless", cause You are the giver, the one from whom all these gifts come. Help me to now focus upon you limit my distractions and help me to be the Christian husband, father, and employee You demand.
In Jesus' name
Amen
crb
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