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"The love of money causes all kinds of trouble. Some people want money so much that they have given up their faith and caused themselves a lot of pain. (1 Timothy 6:10)"
The love of money is the root of all evil. I understand this verse totally BUT we as Christians should also be wary of the other extreme, that is to condemn wealth to a point that having wealth is seen to be having sin.
And the next thing we should meditate about is why do we succumb to the love of money in the first place? Answer: Fear of tomorrow, and that fear leads to worry and worry leads to work of the flesh and the work of the flesh leads to the love of money and materialism. So the only cure for that fear is to understand the love of God and His power of providence through Grace so that the fear will have no hold on us.
Having wealth is NOT a problem when one is constantly being covered by the blood of Jesus and understand totally the heart of God. That is why, Abraham is blessed, Joseph is blessed, Isaac is blessed, David is blessed, Solomon is blessed with riches because they know their God despite their short-comings. Their wealth is in the end, used for blessing others: Abraham for giving tithe to the Priest of the line of Melchizedek, David/Solomon for building the temple to name a few examples.
Therefore, having wealth is also a key to understand God's heart through generousity as with all brothers and sisters who are in the position of power and wealth to bless their workers with physical and financial well-being through the work place.
I firmly believe that true riches is when we know how God treats us as His children and will discipline us first before giving us the wealth to be a blessings to others. That's why tithing, blessing financially challenged people through offerings or other methods and giving to charity is important as this is to train the heart to let go in order to let in God's blessings.
A lot of friends do think that the issue of tithing is under law and since we are under new covenant it is not important. However, the institution of tithing is before law and is used by God to train us in handling precious things on earth so much so that the Lord is always first in our lives.
Once we are trained, then God has no issues in blessing us abundantly (Mal 3:10) because He knows where our heart is so that even the love of money will have no hold on us and instead we will rely on God for our well being then we shall not worry about tomorrow.
Be Blessed because our Lord is Gracious unto us who believed in Him
The love of money is the root of all evil. I understand this verse totally BUT we as Christians should also be wary of the other extreme, that is to condemn wealth to a point that having wealth is seen to be having sin.
And the next thing we should meditate about is why do we succumb to the love of money in the first place? Answer: Fear of tomorrow, and that fear leads to worry and worry leads to work of the flesh and the work of the flesh leads to the love of money and materialism. So the only cure for that fear is to understand the love of God and His power of providence through Grace so that the fear will have no hold on us.
Having wealth is NOT a problem when one is constantly being covered by the blood of Jesus and understand totally the heart of God. That is why, Abraham is blessed, Joseph is blessed, Isaac is blessed, David is blessed, Solomon is blessed with riches because they know their God despite their short-comings. Their wealth is in the end, used for blessing others: Abraham for giving tithe to the Priest of the line of Melchizedek, David/Solomon for building the temple to name a few examples.
Therefore, having wealth is also a key to understand God's heart through generousity as with all brothers and sisters who are in the position of power and wealth to bless their workers with physical and financial well-being through the work place.
I firmly believe that true riches is when we know how God treats us as His children and will discipline us first before giving us the wealth to be a blessings to others. That's why tithing, blessing financially challenged people through offerings or other methods and giving to charity is important as this is to train the heart to let go in order to let in God's blessings.
A lot of friends do think that the issue of tithing is under law and since we are under new covenant it is not important. However, the institution of tithing is before law and is used by God to train us in handling precious things on earth so much so that the Lord is always first in our lives.
Once we are trained, then God has no issues in blessing us abundantly (Mal 3:10) because He knows where our heart is so that even the love of money will have no hold on us and instead we will rely on God for our well being then we shall not worry about tomorrow.
Be Blessed because our Lord is Gracious unto us who believed in Him
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