Money is a Phony god - Phillip Vo

"Hoarding and squandering wasted all their light

and brought them screaming to this brawl of wraiths. 

You need no words of mine to grasp their plight.

Now may you see the fleeting vanity
of the goods of Fortune for which men tear down
all that they are, to build a mockery.

Not all the gold that is or ever was 

under the sky could buy for one of these 

exhausted souls the fraction of a pause."

This passage stuck out to me heavily over the break (as you might have been able to tell by my facebook post) because it relates to our nation and culture today. Each of these circles of hell depicts the punishment for the sins committed, both revealing the hopeless peril that those souls must endure, but the ugly truth to the same hell that one can live in on earth.

What a waste of a life we have lived if all we have to show at the end of our lives is a stuff; either the excess of it or the obsession over having just enough of it. Truly life is but “fleeting vanity” without the eternal purpose of giving God glory leading the way. Imagine putting all your trust and hope in the “gold… under the sky” and in the end, all of it couldn’t buy your soul a moment of rest. That which makes us feel secure is actually making us unstable, so long as it is not Christ. 

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