GOD AND MONEY

November 6, 2010

D A I L Y G O S P E L


If we have to be rich, then we need to learn how to use our wealth for the good of others and not just for ourselves. Money is a terribly seductive reality — it tends to generate a whole power and attraction of its own that is easily diverted by the world to its own pleasures rather than the service of the Kingdom of God. We need to realize that any blessing we receive needs to be directed towards the good of the Gospel or else we will find that it leads us in the opposite direction.



Luke 16:9-15

9 Jesus said to his disciples: “I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. 10 The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones; and the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in great ones. 11 If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who will trust you with true wealth? 12 If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours? 13 No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” 14 The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all these things and sneered at him. 15 And he said to them, “You justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts; for what is of human esteem is an abomination in the sight of God.”