Better to be lowly and have a servant than to play the great man and lack bread.
- Proverbs 12:9
One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
- Proverbs 13:7
We can be enticed by everything this world has to offer.
2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 1:2
God made us to be satisfied by more.
11He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11
11He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11, AMP
We should turn our focus from the temporary to the timeless.
19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew 6:19-21
Living for things that last leads to satisfaction that lasts.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
- Matthew 6:33