Let their table be made a snare

“’David saith, Let their table be made a snare’. I think the religious situation in this country [England] is mainly to be explained by ‘affluence’, the ‘table’. ‘Never had it so good’, you see, the table is full. Plenty of money in our pockets, plenty of drink, motor-cars… ‘let their table be made a snare’. And off they go in their cars on a Sunday to the seaside or the mountain-top or to play golf or to do this or that – ‘let the table be made…’ The table being made a snare. The very blessing of God is becoming a curse. Poverty is a terrible thing but, you know, affluence is a more dangerous thing in a spiritual sense.” D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones