Preoccupation with all the sales. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. This is wise counsel for all of us. We have to watch what we do with our money.
Money can fund all kinds of harmful addictions.
Either you are serving God with your money, or you are yielding to the devil's temptation in the things that you purchase. I firmly believe that the Lord allows us to prosper financially to the degree that He can trust us to use our wealth wisely and for His Godly purposes. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. He led you through the vast and dreadful desert, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.