Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!” Acts 8:20
A paper offered a prize for the best definition of the value of money. The following was the successful answer: “Money is a universal provider of everything but happiness, and a passport everywhere but to Heaven.”
H. Pickering as recounted by Harold E. Will in Will’s Commentary on the New Testament including a Contemporary Rendition, vol. 9 (Grafton: 1995) 153.
We are approaching a big marketing season in which products will make promises only God can deliver. Life is not found in all those things. Buy what you need and remain focused on living, giving, serving, and loving generously.