Meditation:
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that
are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments
are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their
corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh
like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold,
the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you
kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries
of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence.
You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
-- James 5:1-5 (ESV)

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Quotation:
Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your
cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your
organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what
besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if
not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred
up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth
as it is in Jesus.
... C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)