The Love of Money

Ed Traut — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:03:32 +0000

Hebrews 13:5 “Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”Having money can be a useful and wonderful tool, not only for life, but for God’s Kingdom. However, we are clearly taught in Hebrews, to actually keep our lives from the “love of money”. It is the love money that is the root of all evil (1 Timothy 6:10).We have to avoid valuing money or becoming controlled by it. It is always a challenge that money becomes to important to us or of actually thinking about what money can do for us.It is always been God’s plan to supply all of our needs and to take care of us financially, as Philippians 4:19 says, “my God shall supply all of my needs”, and then even more than that. God wants us to prosper. However, we need to keep our lives free from the importance of money or the importance of valuing it too much.It is always going to be a challenge, in our walk with the Lord to always reevaluate our lives. So often God will ask you to give a sizable amount of money, just to make sure that you are not attached to it. Especially when it costs you something. David said that he would not give to God, that which would cost him nothing. When you give to God, you have to feel it as a real sacrifice, that way you are crucifying each time any possibility of valuing money too much

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The Love of Money