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Ealo Nigeria
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The Root of Evil.🌚
<p>I like money.</p><p>But they said it's the root of evil. 🙂</p><p><br/></p><p>Sorry, get your facts straight.</p><p><em>The love of money is the root of evil.</em></p><p><br/></p><p>I don't love money.</p><p>I like money.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yes, there's a difference.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>And I'll prove it.</p><p><br/></p><p>Walk with me.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>What does it mean to 'love' something?</p><p><br/></p><p>It's more than simply enjoying it. When you love something, you develop a deep attachment to it. It becomes important to you. You invest your time, energy, thoughts and sometimes even your identity into it.</p><p><br/></p><p>When you love something, losing it actually hurts.</p><p><br/></p><p>You make sacrifices for it.</p><p>You rearrange your life around it.</p><p>You don't just want it.</p><p>You 'need' it to feel whole.</p><p><br/></p><p>Now, what does it mean to 'like' something?</p><p><br/></p><p>You enjoy it.</p><p>You appreciate it.</p><p>You find it useful or appealing.</p><p>But it doesn't control your life.</p><p><br/></p><p>You can enjoy it without becoming completely attached to it.</p><p><br/></p><p>And that's exactly how I feel about money.</p><p><br/></p><p>Pay close attention to the difference.</p><p><br/></p><p>When I say I like money, I'm not saying money should control my life.</p><p><br/></p><p>Money is good.</p><p>I won't lie.</p><p><br/></p><p>Money is very, very good.</p><p><br/></p><p>It can literally move you from nothing to the main deal.</p><p><br/></p><p>It can change your environment, give you opportunities, solve problems and make life significantly easier.</p><p><br/></p><p>Money can transform my life.</p><p><br/></p><p>But that doesn't mean I love it so much that I'll literally do anything for it.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Brrrr.</p><p>What will I tell my children? 😭</p><p><br/></p><p>How will I explain to my cuties that mommy got her money from sleeping with different men?</p><p>Or scamming her fellow humans or grinders?</p><p><br/></p><p>NEVER.</p><p><br/></p><p>There has to be a line.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>And I've seen people I know very well change drastically because of money.</p><p><br/></p><p>People I used to know suddenly became people I couldn't recognise anymore.</p><p><br/></p><p>That's how destructive the obsession with money can become.</p><p><br/></p><p>It starts controlling you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then it starts controlling how you think.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then your decisions.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then your values.</p><p><br/></p><p>And before you know it, you're no longer using money.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Money is using you.</p><p>And that's where the problem begins.</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>Money isn't everything in life.</strong></p><p><strong>Please, have God too.😩</strong></p><p><strong>Don't make money more important than God.</strong></p><p><br/></p><p>NEVER.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>So if I tell you I like money, please don't look at me like I'm the devil herself.</p><p><br/></p><p>'The love of money is the root of evil.'</p><p><br/></p><p>I just happen to like the thing.😂</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Yes, argue with your keyboard.</p><p>Or better still, argue with me in the comments. 😂</p><p><br/></p><p>Anyways, thank you for sticking with me.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>But jokes aside....</p><p><br/></p><p>Learn from this;</p><p><strong>Don't allow money to control you.</strong></p><p><strong>You should be the one controlling it.</strong></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."</p><p>~ 1st Timothy 6:10</p><p><br/></p><p><img src="/media/inline_insight_image/1002930720.jpg"/></p>

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