Many people I meet are so busy chasing money and as a result will even go to their graves not knowing what they missed out on by putting money before God. See when your running after money you are blinded to the hazard that is directly in front of you. You can not serve two masters, for you will love one and hate the other. Yes we need money to survive and many have got themselves into debt, but do we pursue money or do we pursue the provider who has promised to help provide for all of our needs according to His riches and glory. No point trying to gain the whole world and in the process losing our eternal souls forever. I hear the saying "better to work wiser than harder", which is the same for those that to decide to make Christ the Center of everything we do, so we chase Him and not money.

Matthew 6:25-34Amplified Bible (AMP)

" 25 Therefore I tell you, stop being [a]perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing?
26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?
27 And who of you by worrying andbeing anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the span of his life?
28 And why should you be anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and [c]learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin.
29 Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his [d]magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed like one of these.
30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive andgreen and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?
32 For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.
33 But seek ([e]aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness ([f]His way of doing and being right), and then all these things [g]taken together will be given you besides.
34 So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own troubles"

Hey Toks! Hope you are well!

I'm very well Carrie.
How are things with you?

Thanks for the reminder!!!

I think there are two main things that often pre-occupy humans at the expense of their souls - 'money' and 'power'. So, maybe as we think about this thread as relates to our pursuit for money vis aviz our pursuit for heaven and for heavenly riches, we may also wish to think over pursuit for power.

For men, some may also wish to add, 'women' as the third (I have heard this from men's mouths)! Sorry, men, this is not from me!

You're very right.

Money, power, possessions, and all that. This issue of men chasing women which becomes part of their pursuit in life is dealing with their souls terribly. And most are unsatisfied, and at the end of the day, they'd realize that they were infatuated.
Some could manage themselves so well going about the lust of the flesh and still profess they have fellowship with HIM. But it is a deceit! A Superb fraud! Hypocrisy.

1 Peter 2:11 KJV

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

The MASTER knew this and HE spoke about it.
"Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her have committed adultery with her already in his heart." (Matthew 5:27,28).