What's your relationship with money?   

If a person wants to be in friendship or in a marriage with another person, it’s important to first make sure he is exhibiting the characteristics he seeks in the other.  This is the only way a balanced relationship can be achieved, that is to say, that both participants also bring the necessary behavioral markers that the other wants and they want themselves. How can one expect something from others which he himself is not able or willing to do? As Believers, each one of us must reject selfish and sinful tendencies and characteristics and embrace God’s law, which leads to loving the Father and others before ourselves, but it also means loving ourselves as well in the sense that keeping the Father’s commandments produces the best possible outcomes (even though persecution will still exist), especially the outcome of everlasting life with the Father and His Son and having them with you by the Holy Spirit while you’re here on earth.   Paul is the most prominent root of division ...