God created us in His image, breathing the breath of His spirit (ruach) into us so that we can also have our own unique spirit, the essence of who we are, and everything that goes along with it: emotions, personality, thoughts, character traits, etc.

The problem is once our spirit’s become corrupted by sin, the rest of our lives starts to show the results of that corruption, becoming cracked or utterly destroyed. The only way to regain wholeness is through a life with Jesus, allowing Him to transform and heal us.

Sin not only corrupts our emotions and destroys our relationships, as I’ve talked about over the last few days, it also corrupts our desires, making us selfish and long for things that we shouldn’t have.

There is one desire in particular that Scripture says is the root of all kinds of evil: the love or extreme desire of money and/or material wealth. (1 Timothy 6:10)

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