It is money. Money represents your time, your energy, your talents, your total personality converted into currency. We hold to our money tenaciously yet it is uncertain in value and we cannot bring it with us when we die
Money making is essential in daily living but it is apt to degenerate into money-loving and then the deceitfulness of riches enters and spoils our spiritual life.
It is not wrong for men to possess riches. But money cannot buy happiness, true pleasure and true peace of heart. Money certainly cannot buy you entrance into the Kingdom of God.
Money is a hindrance to these things.
Worldliness cannot be confined to a particular rank, walk or circumstance of life. It is actually a spirit, an atmosphere, an influence seeping into the whole life and human society, and it needs to be guarded against constantly and strenuously.
The Bible teaches us that we are stewards of our earnings for a little while. The Word teaches us to give a portion of our earnings as tithe. We are to take the tithe as a standard but to go beyond the tithe is an indication of our gratefulness to God’s gifts to us. Apart from sorrow and trouble, God gives us blessings and enjoyments. Even our capacity to love comes from God.
1 John 3 : 17
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
Luke 12 : 42
The Lord answered, Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time?
(0044) 13 February 2007