Key #7 To Successful Money Managing

Key #7: Learn to be content with what God has given you.

This is an easy concept to say, but much harder to grasp. Our culture screams at us to buy more, buy bigger, and buy newer. If we do, we will finally discover true happiness (so we're told).

The Bible has a different message for us, found in Ecclesiastes 5:10:

Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!

1 Timothy 6:6-10 is much the same:

Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth. After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it. So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

And to top it off, Hebrews 13:5:

Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.”

Money (and possessions) in itself is not evil. Allowing that money or the drive for more to consume yours or my life is 'the root of all kinds of evil'.

Nowhere are these verses proved more true than in third world countries. I've heard stories upon stories, and witnessed for myself, how truly happy a person can be living with next to no possessions. But simply taking a vow of poverty will not lead to happiness. We must remember the last half of Hebrews 13:5. Rather than seeking happiness and contentment in possessions, we must instead find our contentment in God.

God is all we need.

Once we discover the truth in that statement, everything else becomes secondary, especially money.


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