Different genres of literature call for different reading approaches. We don’t read poetry like we read a math workbook. What genre of literature is the Book of Hebrews? We know the Gospels, and we know Acts, Revelation, and the Epistles. Hebrews reads a little more like a sermon. At the end of the message, the writer is “landing the plane.” He offers a rule of life to his readers, showing them how Christianity permeates their decisions.
Christians in the first and twenty-first centuries, love each other, offer hospitality, and keep marriage pure. What about money? Christians were to keep themselves free from loving money and live with contentment. What is the basis for our contentment: we have God. God says, “Don’t fall in love with money, because you have me, and I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Richard Foster wrote a book titled, “Money, Sex, Power” in which he identifies these three areas of temptation in the lives of believers. Is Jesus enough for us? Or is he a means to the end of getting what we want out of life? When we come to the place that our relationship with God brings us peace, we will not forever thirst for more possessions, relationships, or control. Christ is the key to contentment. Jesus is still enough. He always will be.
