Riches can not please man

For future occasions you should want to start discussions rather than strait up debates, click the top of the web page where it says ‘Forums’ then click on forum that fits what you want to discuss (in this case ‘Religion’) then click ‘Start a new thread’. What you did here was click ‘Start a new Debate’ on the opening page. That will cause this ‘discussion’ to be judged by readers and voted on for sources, spelling, arguments, and conduct. It means the ‘discussion’ comes to a default close after whatever rounds you set. In the forums these restrictions do not exist, character limit is always eight thousand and you will not have an ‘opponent’ who will debate you for the voting audience that will read this debate when its finished and up on the front page. Since you are new to the sight I will be compliant with you wish to just discuss this however that’s going to change much of what I say because I don’t want to corrupt you with my playing devils advocate for the sake of debate since this is going to be a discussion. However now thinking about what I seriously want to say on this subject I don’t think I really end up parting from my end of the resolution to say riches cannot please men (without god). Those without God spend there whole lives chasing worldly pleasures that are never quite enough. Men can experience basic pleasure without god. But these pleasures are not ensured to last long, and they are not as deep as the peace and joy that comes with knowing Christ. I like to compare it to like bonfires and embers. Before you know God, before your saved, before you commit yourself to keep Gods laws, Satan tries to steer us away from God with worldly pleasures. Think of these things like embers and us as beings trying to get warm. When all the warmth we have ever know are embers, to our perspective we would look at it like it’s a great fire to gather round and get warm. But really they do not provide us much and we have to clutch so hard to them that our skin may get burned from the direct contact. But what we get when we turn to God, that puts to shame anything we thought we were getting from the embers, it is like a bonfire. With God we can feel real Joy With God we can feel real peace With God we can feel real righteous anger C.S. Lewis once compared Lust to a week whimpering lizard who once completely killed made way for a great stallion of true desire for another. God takes the pleasures we thought we liked so well before we knew and amplifies them once we learn to truly let go of them and give it all up to him in humble submission. An example with lust, whereas a world chaser would have been consumed with cycling through various girlfriends or perhaps far worse addicted to what he can look up on the internet. Once we are saved we can still chase after the same lust we did before. But once we learn to submit to our new savior, we let those things go and follow his commands. We settle down with a spouse and we devote ourselves just to her, if we make sure she shares with none other than god, then a love unlike any other comes from that. In the case of this debates/discussions topic, Riches, before as a world chaser perhaps we were able to be proud of ourselves for what we stockpiled. And we can be happy from things we might buy with our wealth. Maybe we could even be giving to charities and feel good about ourselves for that. But once we have God in our lives, and we stop chasing after the worldly pursuit of just stockpiling our money for the sake of stockpiling it, chasing after getting our joy from the things we buy, and giving for the sake of declaring our sainthood…. What are we doing then? We chase after Gods will in submission in the ways we save, spend, and give. And when you save, spend, and give with Gods will in mind the joy you get from how you operate your money will be on a whole different level.