The Power of Love

The danger of money lies in the ways love of it can seduce our hearts from the one who exceeds all else in value. Jesus' charge to the rich young ruler and his disciples to sell and give to the poor was in order that they might have treasure in heaven, he says. The Apostle Paul speaks of this same surpassing value in Philippians 3: "I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus"