2032) Mankind has always had a love affair with money. We can take stock of what we already have, but it’s easier to see what we don’t, often in comparison to the things of others.

These thoughts came to me when I read the familiar verse Hebrews 13:5. It reads, keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ (ESV)

My first reaction was, I know I need to be content with what I have, but then I looked at the last part of the verse, I will never leave you nor forsake you, and it got me to wondering why this was added onto a verse about money.

It came to me quickly why we don’t need to love money; it’s because we have something more valuable than money and that’s a God who does not leave nor forsake us. The Greek word for forsake is egkataleipó, which means leave you in the lurch or abandoned. (biblehub.com)

The greatest being in all the universe has promised a simple teacher and writer that he will never leave nor abandon her. THAT’s something money cannot buy.