Trust
God More Than Money
For
the love of money is a root of evil of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager
for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many
griefs. – 1 Timothy 6:10
As I write
this, the Powerball jackpot has gone to $875 million dollars. How many of you
have purchased or plan to purchase a ticket? How many of you dream about all
you could do with money like that?
Most of us,
if we’re honest, answered yes to both questions. There’s nothing wrong with
that. It’s when winning, when achieving financial success, becomes our
obsession that our lives get out of whack. We’re so focused on the wrong things
that we miss the right things.
Many people
misread and misquote the Scripture above. Money is not evil. Having an
abundance of money is not evil. It’s the love of money that’s evil. It’s
a lure that draws us away from God and away from doing the right things.
We have a
tendancy to depend on money, rather than God, to get us through. Certainly, we
need money to survive. Money buys food, shelter, gas to drive to work, clothes
to wear, school supplies for our children. The list goes on and on. I am not criticizing
the desire to be able to provide for ourselves and our families.
It’s when we
put money on a pedestal and count on it rather than God that our lives turn
away from God and toward evil. We trust money more than God and nothing should
usurp God.
We tend to
“trust” God when all of our other options have gone away. We turn to God when
we have no other choice, when we have used up all of our resources. What would
happen if we turned to God first? Perhaps we would relinquish the sin of worry
and be filled with the peace God gives us when we trust Him.
It’s okay to
want financial security but learn to trust that God will provide all we truly
need.
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