“For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” 1 Timothy 6:7
Money is not evil, but God said that peoples love for
it is evil. As Christians we must always remember that our life should be
filled with pleasing God and not ourselves. And, we must have an understanding
that our thirst for money is not pleasing to God. The most pleasing to God is
to be content with what God gives us and not thriving to be rich and having
much. No person brought anything into this world, we were all born naked.
However, some were born into families that had much and never needed much. The
life of a Christin is not what we have in life but thriving in the blessings
that God has given to us. Life for a believer starts when God saves our soul
and begins to bless us with so many blessing that we cannot count them. A
Christians downfall is a misunderstanding of what God wants for us; He gives
some riches and others He makes poor. Our faith and our way of life is not
measured in dollars but in God’s blessings. If we allow ourselves to be
concerned with money, then that desire will affect our relationship with God
and become our evil in life. In a believer’s life money should have little
value, because if we gain the entire world and lose our souls, then what have
we gained? Mark 8:36. All we need in this life is what God blesses us with;
therefore, contentment is necessary on our part. The Lord reminds us in Heb. 13:5 “Let
your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as
ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”
God’s blessings may include money, or it may not, the Lord may enrich one and
not another, that is God’s choice and not our need to chase riches. God’s
blessings are not gauged by riches in money but in God’s blessing that He has
chosen for you. When money is a person’s blessing in life then it brings
sorrow, pain, and misery. When people measure their life in dollars they are
sinning against God, because some of the most blessed people on earth are poor.
The Lord said, “But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare,
and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and
perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.” This is because
their love for money separates them from God, it is a lust and what did God say
about lust, “Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin,
when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” James 1:15. Human lust for money
will cause a Christian to lose their faith in God because is causes people to
do sinful things. God also said in James 4:2 “Ye lust, and have not: ye
kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not,
because ye ask not.” If we need, we ask God, we do not forsake God and His
commandments to gain money and then call that forsaking God a blessing from
God. God will never have His children to disobey Him as a blessing to Him.
Remember what God said, “ye have not, because ye ask not.” Did you ask
God for a blessing, and the thing you think is a blessing is it sinful, because
if it is, then it is not a blessing from God but of lust. Money is needed in
life, but only as a blessing from God. We must learn to add all things and
decide did God bless me with this or is it that for which I lust? The Lord
said, “which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and
pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” Erring from the faith will
only bring sorrow and cause you to be weakened in faith. God reminds us, “Many
sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall
compass him about. Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout
for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.” Psalms 32:10 – 11. If
Christians want to be upright in the heart and to shout for joy it is not found
in money or worldly things, it is only found in trusting God, standing
faithful, and being content with God’s blessings. Our walk in this world as believers
is not to please ourselves and falsely call it blessings from God, but to ask
of God and be content with His gifts, because His gifts will only make us wiser
and richer in Him.
