Morningstar it’s clear that our checkbooks reveal far more about our hearts than our church attendance. And even more importantly, our checkbooks can change our hearts. Two bible stories confirm that money can change our hearts for better or worse. Remember Zaccheus? He was that the tiny tax collector, that Danny Devito look-a-like who gave half his possessions to the poor after deciding to follow Jesus, and his heart belonged to God forever. Remember the rich young ruler? He’s the young preppie who refused to give his treasures to the poor at the request of Jesus, and so far as we know he spent the rest of his life far from God.
Jesus spends so much time talking about money because money is the number one rival to God for our hearts—always has been, always will be. The real issue in our lives is, “Who’s going to be God in our life—God or money? That’s why Jesus says, No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
Speaking of God, our fixation with money can also reveal that we don’t trust God to come through for us when it counts
And the truth about money is this: you don’t own a single penny. I don’t own a penny. Nobody on earth owns a penny. So whose money is it? It’s God’s money——every penny of it. Whatever money we have is ours to manage not to own. We must handle money God’s way and answer to him for the way we deal with his money.
Does that sound good to you? Do you like the thought of treating your money as not really yours but God’s? Maybe not. You might prefer to have God stay out of your finances. But like it or not, there’s really no such thing as your finances. There’s only God’s finances, which he allows you to handle for awhile. This might not appeal to you at first, but treating your money as God’s money turns out to be a privilege and a joy. It honors God and it blesses you enormously.......Jason
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