We all need money to live. With the ever-increasing cost of living and the invention of so many new things to make life better, getting rich can sound like a good plan to solve that problem and acquire everything we want. But wealth is deceptive in that it is inherently unstable. One day we can have it, and the next day it vanishes.

Illustration: Sean Russell’s disastrous 2017 investment in bitcoin.

Verses: Prov. 23:4-5

Teacher: Jerry Wierwille