Downward mobility

How much is enough? How much money and stuff do we really need? Not much. Paul said we should be content with food and clothing (1Ti 6:8). “I can do all thing through Christ who strengthens me” means I can live with less (Phil 4:12-13). Agur prayed, “Lord, give me neither poverty or riches. Give me just enough to satisfy my needs.” It seems to me that we devote way too much time and energy to material things. We spend and are expended for stuff rather than people (2Co 12:15). It is vain for you to rise up early and retire late; to eat the bread of painful labor; For he gives to his beloved even in his sleep (Psa 127:2).