1 Timothy
6:6-10 “But godliness with contentment is great gain, 7 for we brought
nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. 8 But if we have food
and clothing, with these we will be content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into
temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge
people into ruin and destruction. 10 For
the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils.”
In their
book, The Day America Told the Truth, authors James Patterson and Peter Kim
revealed some shocking statistics on how far people in this country would be
willing to go for money. When asked what they’d do for $10 million dollars:
(25%) Would abandon their entire family
(23%) Would
become prostitutes for a week or more
(16%) Would
give up their American citizenship
(16%) Would
leave their spouses
(10%) Would
withhold testimony and let a murderer go free
(7%) Would
kill a stranger
(3%) Would
put their children up for adoption
Perhaps the most telling
statement in all of Scripture related to money are the words of our Lord, "Where your treasure is there your heart will be
also."To put that into common language, "Show me where your money is and I'll show you where your affections lie." To make it even more mundane, "Go through your checkbook and find out what you really care about."
Your spiritual life can be measured probably better by what you do with your money than any other single thing.
Experts tell us that the average person thinks about money 50 percent of his or her waking time.
How to get it, how to keep it, how to save it, how to spend it, how to find it, whatever it might be, we're tremendously occupied with the matter of money.
Jesus in saying where your treasure is there your heart is also tells us that what we do with our money is the measure of our hearts.
The Questions is: What is your attitude towards money?
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