Had a good dinner with a friend and was discussing about the power of money. It is so invisible yet so powerful. With money, lots of things can be done. One can buy shelter, food, luxury, status, friendship, comfort, image, style, convenience etc... that's why we do everything we can to obtain it. Once you have it, you almost have the world. The force is so powerful, some spend their entire life chasing after it.
Jesus often challenged about serving either God or Money. If we serve one, we can't serve the other. The quest for wealth will distract us from the pursuits of God and His will. Yet the love of money is such a silent killer. We never know how it has a hold on us until we are drawn into its invincible realm. There are many ways to justify this quest i.e. be responsible, provide for your family and all that. Beneath the disguise is an addiction to the power money brings. Having loads of it makes one feels in control, in charge. Especially in this world where dollars and cents makes the most logical sense to our senses, money is "god" especially if we worship it.
It's a scary and a perpetual nightmare. Being rich, wealthy is not the problem. Loving the wealth, hogging it, placing life's security upon it will slowly pollute us until we become poisonous. We'll never know how much influence it has on us until one day, it is removed from us. Love for money has the ability to unearth the envy & greed monsters in our lives. It can blind us so much from making the right decisions and causes us to be as helpless as one who is addicted to heroin.
I've seen how the love for money destroyed lives. A seasoned investor who draws a 5-digit salary could overnight be hit by a crisis because of an overly ambitious, miscalculated investment. All riches turn to rags as the wand of fortune waves away. No matter how much one loves money, it will never have your interests at heart. Money doesn't serve man. Man serve money. Choose God and serve Him.
1 Tim 6:6 (NLT) "Yet true religion with contentment is wealth"
I don't need to have a lot of money to be happy. I just need to have enough and have the Lord to be blessed.
Jesus often challenged about serving either God or Money. If we serve one, we can't serve the other. The quest for wealth will distract us from the pursuits of God and His will. Yet the love of money is such a silent killer. We never know how it has a hold on us until we are drawn into its invincible realm. There are many ways to justify this quest i.e. be responsible, provide for your family and all that. Beneath the disguise is an addiction to the power money brings. Having loads of it makes one feels in control, in charge. Especially in this world where dollars and cents makes the most logical sense to our senses, money is "god" especially if we worship it.
It's a scary and a perpetual nightmare. Being rich, wealthy is not the problem. Loving the wealth, hogging it, placing life's security upon it will slowly pollute us until we become poisonous. We'll never know how much influence it has on us until one day, it is removed from us. Love for money has the ability to unearth the envy & greed monsters in our lives. It can blind us so much from making the right decisions and causes us to be as helpless as one who is addicted to heroin.
I've seen how the love for money destroyed lives. A seasoned investor who draws a 5-digit salary could overnight be hit by a crisis because of an overly ambitious, miscalculated investment. All riches turn to rags as the wand of fortune waves away. No matter how much one loves money, it will never have your interests at heart. Money doesn't serve man. Man serve money. Choose God and serve Him.
1 Tim 6:6 (NLT) "Yet true religion with contentment is wealth"
I don't need to have a lot of money to be happy. I just need to have enough and have the Lord to be blessed.
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