Nobody wants to be poor and many who have experienced poverty have a large heart to give their possessions, skills, life etc. for the benefit of others. I have a heart of compassion and I certainly don’t want to go back down the road of poverty ever again!
I consider myself very fortunate to have finally come to my senses and know that there is a God in heaven who created the entire world and everything in it: “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to Him.” Psalm 24: 1 [NLT].
I also now know that, apart from standing before God one day to be accountable for my actions here on earth, the Lord will certainly be interested in how I managed the inflows and outflows of my bank account! “You must set aside a tithe of your crops …..Bring this tithe to the designated place of worship – the place the Lord your God chooses for His name to be honoured ……Doing this will teach you always to fear the Lord your God.”
Deuteronomy 14: 22 – 23 [NLT]
Through studying His WORD, I have also learnt that money can be both a great servant and also a vicious master. We need to earn more of it if we can but never allow it to dominate us. Money can be used for good and for evil. With lots of money I could build schools, roads and clinics including sponsoring the spread of the gospel to the nations. But with the same amount of money somebody somewhere right now is using money to sponsor evil activities in this world which God has already said belongs to Him. If you don’t get it, let me put it another way - the printing process which is being used to print our Bibles - God's holy scriptures, is the same printing press being used to print pornographic materials, etc.
Money itself is not evil, but how it is used is what matters.
Today, pray for wisdom to use money for God’s purposes and for it not to be your master.
Farai Mutsambiwa
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