“And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, saying, Oh no! The great city! The abundance of her wealth made all the ship owners rich! In a single hour she is ruined!”
Revelation 18:19 CJB
Two things here! First: look at the sadness about losing earthly riches! Throwing dust on your heads is an ancient expression of grief! More grief about worldliness than godliness!
“In their hands are evil schemes; their right hands are full of bribes.”
Psalm 26:10 CJB
Second: when man comes against God as the merchants did! God can and will take it all away in seconds! The warning is be careful of what you worship and don’t put the world above God!
“Do not love the world or the things of the world. If someone loves the world, then love for the Father is not in him; because all the things of the world-the desires of the old nature, the desires the eyes, and pretensions of life-are not from the Father but from the world.”
1 John 2:15-16 CJB
God does a lot of warning about being caught up in the world!
“And the world is passing away, along with its desires, But whoever does God’s will remains forever.”
1 John 2:17 CJB
The world provides all the desires we think we desire! Desires of old nature, desires of the eyes and desires aspirations of life!
What we need is to desire the things of Adonai which will sustain us and save us! We need to pray and get out of God’s way then watch what he will do!
May your day be richly blessed in him!
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