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I told My disciples that it was extremely difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.  When the rich man approached Me and asked Me what he must do to inherit eternal life, I reviewed the commandments with him.  However, there were four commandments that I did not include.  I did not speak about the following commandments:  "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might;" "You shall have no other gods before Me;" "You shall keep the Sabbath;" and "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain."

I did list those commandments that the rich man kept.  The four commandments that he was unable to keep were the four I excluded from the list.  I did not include those four commandments because they all have to do with making Me the Lord of your life.  This man's riches kept him from loving Me with all of his heart.  His god was money, not Me, and this proved to be the case when he could not sell all and give to the poor.  He kept the Sabbath, but for him it was a religious exercise, not a way of honoring Me as Lord of his life.

My enemy will always try to get you to worship mammon more than Me.  Mammon is anything that you allow to fill your life more than you allow Me to fill your life with My Spirit.  I challenge you today to consider what takes the place of Me in your life.

MARK 10:17-22; DEUTERONOMY 5:6-14