You Can't Take it With You

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end shall be a fool. Jeremiah 27:11

He that gets riches and not by right, though he may make them his hope, shall never have joy of them. It is possible that those who use unlawful means to get wealth may succeed therein and prosper for a time; and it is a temptation to many to defraud and oppress their neighbours when there is money to be got by it.

What a great vexation it is to a wordly man at death that he must leave his riches behind him; and justly may it be a terror to those who got them unjustly, for, though the wealth will not follow them to another world, the guilt will, and the torment of the everlasting.

The rich man takes a great deal of pains to get an estate together, and sits brooding upon it, but never has any comfort nor satisfaction in it; his projects to enrich himself by sinful courses miscarry and come to nothing.

Let us therefore be wise in time--what we get to get it honestly, and what we have to use it charitably, that we may lay up in store a good foundation and be wise for eternity. (Matthew Henry)

For some reason congress came to mind as I read this verse last week. There is nothing wrong with money; if it comes to you honestly.