REAL POVERTY
Today's reading: Proverbs 28

"Rich people picture themselves as wise, but their real poverty is evident to the poor." Proverbs 28:11 NLT

I've mistakenly been put on a mailing list for a celebrity-tabloid magazine. For the past 3-4 months I've called the publishing company to have my name removed--but to no avail. A waste of good paper really, because I take the magazine from our mailbox and deposit it immediately in to the trashcan.

I don't want to know the dirty little secrets of the stars. I don't care to be enlightened on the affairs of the celebrities. I don't agree with a society that promotes, as entertainment, young women and young men involved in the high life.

No matter how much money they make!

Lifestyles of the rich and famous might sell a few copies to those interested in such nonsense, but if we were to call it what it truly is, SIN, would anyone be so quick to snatch up the information provided in its pages?

Sex, outside marriage, is sin.

Abusing one's temple, whether with alcohol or drugs (prescribed by a doctor or not), is sin.

Living ungodly lives, is sin.

Mocking God and all His commands, is sin.

Lying, cheating, stealing, is sin.

Having money? Well, it can't cover up, hide or clean up sin--no matter how much of it there is!