![]() God understands this, and engages greed as the tangled and tangling reality in the human heart that it really is. Greed is such an alluring disposition of the human heart, because power is so … powerful.Īnd money is one way of representing that power. ![]() ![]() The more money you have, the more opportunities are available to you. In Scripture, we find an engagement with the reality of money-and the desire for money-as that which it has always represented: power. That’s why, in the Bible, we don’t find strict absolutisms that demonize or obscure the complex realities of aspiration, wealth, growth, inheritance, success, profit, and the opportunity for greed to plant itself in the human heart and grow like a weed. The line between greed and aspiration-between the bottomless desire for more and the human drive to succeed-are easily blurred.
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