"Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."(1 Timothy 6:9-10)

The Dangers: Fueled by greed is a love that consumes.

Fueled by greed, the opponents "lost their way," a sobering illustration of how the desire for riches drives a wedge between the believer and God. Paul describes the toll taken in spiritual loss, broken relationships and damaged reputations as griefs that pierce like thorns. An obsession with acquiring wealth is a self-feeding fire. The pursuit of wealth leads down a road filled with every variety of pitfall. But the reverse is also true. And this does not only consume our time and energy but also our values. 

The words temptation and trap may well be used with Satan's manipulations in mind and the Enemy is certainly capable of using the hope of wealth to blur the moral distinctions of believers. Foolish and harmful desires not only are for wealth itself but are probably also immoral cravings unleashed by access to wealth.Strangely,  money may be a solution for all our problems and difficulties but at the same time it can also lead to ruin than to wealth.

Some people will do anything, to be rich whether by hooked or by crooked to attain it. Wealth leads people into circles where the rules are different, the peer pressure is tremendous, and the values are totally distorted. What, for the believer, might have been unthinkable from the outside becomes quite natural once on the inside. Riches as we know are not forbidden of course, but the price of them is. And at the end of the day, which Paul emphasizes with a verb that means to plunge (as if to drown) and two nouns that combine to describe complete destruction.  

"The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil", is meant to give to the warning a kind of popular authority. Beyond this, however, the root metaphor contains an important truth. Similarly, Paul's hearers must not simply treat the problems caused by greed. They must tear out the root that produces the problems.
Jesus' own assessment which follows is no easier: "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle" (10:24-25). But the same passage points to our only hope: "all things are possible with God" The dangerous part is whether the love of money in a materialistic society or the Christians rationalization for joining in the chase.The answer must lie in seeking God for the strength and determination to do what is impossible for us—to somehow take control of the lust for money and things, to somehow bring about the paradigm shift that will allow God and others to occupy the places of priority in life.

Let me end this with Luke 12:16-21 and

 "And he told them a parable, saying, The land of a rich man produced plentifully, 17 and he thought to himself, What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (1 John 2:15)

This is just a reminder for us, to put our priorities in checked not to lose our focus on God alone. For He is telling us not to focus our mind on the temporal things that we see in this world but the things that are unseen, for this is eternal. And this is the world of God..Be blessed!