Do you "possess" it or does it possess you?
By the way, I am talking about money...do you have money or does money have a handle on you?
We are in the middle of sharing a teaching on money and boy is it challenging. The thing about money is that we can use it to bless so many people, but it also has such a tendency to consume us and pull us away from God.
In the church, we often fall into the trap of 'guilting' people to part with money, but the Bible has so much more to say about our finances than this. Jesus knew that his disciples (and us) would find themselves living in a world of differing values and that many people would be tempted to believe that "it's money that makes the world go round!"
Money has a 'dark' side, as well as a 'light' side - it can consume us or we can use it to provide for our families and to bless many other people. We just need to understand Jesus' correct teaching on money!
- “We need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money!” – Richard Foster
Jesus said it like this:
"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." - Matthew 6:21
May we foster a spirit of thankfulness for what we have and then also choose to bless others.
Living in Grace
D3LM3
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