Matthew 6:24 - No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate one, and love other; or else he will hold to one, and despise other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

In particular verse above mammon means a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit, which means there is a certain obsession you can have with money that will make it your God.

What's more when we get money and fame it becomes easy for us to distract ourselves from really important things like serving God and helping needy. Instead, we tend to indulge ourselves in sexual pleasures or expensive purchases, and even more than usual because it seems like quick and easy way to get our minds off of our troubles whenever they arise.

Every one of us can see that some of most rich and famous people in world are also most confused workers of iniquity. We can also tell that these are people that most of us and our kids may tend to idolize because we think they "got it made" by being so rich and famous. Particularly, entertainers like actors, rappers, singers and sports stars who we always see on T.V.

But in reality they are lost souls covering their troubles with indulgences. It's not wise to want to be like them and we shouldn't condone our kids wanting to be like them either.

I'm not saying its a bad thing to be rich I'm just saying that money should be furthest thing from our minds if we really call ourselves wanting to be happy.

Matthew 6:33 - But seek ye first kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

The point is simply this, if you go out of your way to serve and please God (especially threw hard times) He will bless you exceedingly and abundantly above and beyond all that you could ever ask for or even think about.

And this is not limited to just money, but also love, health and success just to name a few.

David Hopkins is a "Christian Article Writer" who specializes in helping people remember to glorify God in everything that they do, so they don't miss out on any of His wonderful blessings.

However we may want to look at it, prophecy of Amos went directly to heart of matters. It stripped pretence from judicial system, where favoritism rather than justice prevailed; from industry and commerce, where love of gain had ousted love of man; from altars of religion, where officials were busy with their services and indifference to reality.

Amos bluntly told Israel that they were a bunch of greedy, unjust, unclean and profane people who defended and excused themselves on ground that they were God’s elect and therefore, no real evil could befall them. But he rejected this notion and adamantly declared that God knew no favoritism. In fact, he asserted that opposite was true. The fact that Israel had been chosen above all nations of earth had placed greater moral obligations upon them. To extent that they failed to meet these obligations would their punishment be greater than that of their enemies.

Neither did Amos “bite his tongue” either when admonishing women of his day whom he called “cows of Bashan” because they only cared for luxury and worldly pleasures (4:11). He pictures them as a group of heartless, ignorant women who used folks to gratify their own lustful appetites.

It’s troubling to spirit when one thinks about how people of Israel thought of “Day of Lord.” In their minds, it would be a grand and glorious event when God would defeat all their opponents; give them privilege of rule, and shower her with all material advantages her patriots desired. Then here comes party killer, Amos, with words of dread and judgment.

I wonder if there is any similarity between ancient Israel and modern America. Just a thought!