Title

You Cannot Buy Love

Scripture
If a man would give for love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly despised.
(Song of Solomon 8:7)
Devotional
The truly valuable things of life cannot be bought with money. Righteousness, wisdom, integrity, honesty, virtue and love are above the price of currency. They can be earned, but they cannot be bought. Solomon in his wisdom understood the value of money when he said, “Money answers everything.”(1) He understood that money could answer everything, but it could not necessarily buy everything. Love is one of those things that money cannot buy. If love could be bought, it would not be worth much at all. At best it would be short lived and filled with sorrow. Love that can be purchased is fraudulent love. It is not real; if you have bought it you have been had. The love and friendships you buy are bought by and for the money that paid for it. Here we understand the scripture that says, “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.”(2)

(1) Ecclesiastes 10:19 , (2) 1 Timothy 6:10.
Text For The Day
Song of Solomon 8:7: If a man would give for love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly despised.
Thought For The Day
“I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of him to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.” Wilbur Rees, Leadership Magazine 
Questions To Ponder
Morning Study Guide
Defining:  “Love for sale” in a word is “harlotry.”
 
Referencing: “Buy the truth, and do not sell it,” Proverbs 23:23.
 
Applying: If it takes gifts and presents, things or bribes to please, it isn’t love; it is greed.