A warning which needs to be reiterated is that the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lust of other things entering in, wil choke al that God puts in. We are never free from the recurring tides of this encroachment. If it does not come on the line of clothes and food, it wil come on the line of money or lack of money; of friends or lack of friends; or on the line of difficult circumstances.