DAILY WALKING WITH GOD #229 THE LOVE OF MONEY AND OUR MORALS I was discussing with Pastor F Adetayo and his dear wife in my office 2 days ago. The Man of God, also a renowned Civil Engineer, recalled how he was returning from a trip many years ago along the East/West Road, PH and had a flat tyre just about 3 kilometres to his house. Since it was dark and his spare tyre could not be fixed, he pulled the car to a nearby filling station for safety till the next day. Getting there, he appealed to the securityman on duty to keep an eye on it till the following morning. The security man demanded for a tip of N200.00. The cash on the Pastor was barely sufficient to give him a taxi ride home. He then appealed to our man to assist him watch the vehicle till the next morning. He refused! The following dialogue further took place between the two men: The pastor: Please help me. I will compensate you tomorrow. The cash on me could only help me home. Securityman: Before you come tomorrow I would have closed from this duty post. Pastor: Please sir, I am in a critical situation now. I just need your help. You could require my own help in the future and your children could also need my help too. Securityman: Please leave my children out of this, Oga Pastor. Whether or not my children get help or not is their business. Let them battle with their own destinies. This is my own life. If they want to fail, let them fail. And the ranting continued ..... At last, after parting with all the money on him, the Pastor trecked the rest of the journey home. This story made me to wonder whether the securityman was suffering from the evils associated with the love of money or poverty or corruption or, more still, moral depravity. Could the securityman be suffering from moral depravity to the point that he cared not as to what could become of his childrens destinies? Our crave for money or money worth today is alarming and our morals are suffering severe erosion. The desire to satisfy our selfish needs now overrides all other considerations. This is the root of why corruption is seemingly beyond human check. It is not peculiar to the governments alone but it cuts across executive levels of both private and governmental concerns. Dan Miller, Chicago Daily News, July 29, 1970 observes that Few executives can afford the luxury of a conscience. A business that defined right and wrong in terms that would satisfy a well-developed contemporary conscience could not survive. When the directors and managers enter the board room to debate policy, they park their private consciences outside. If they didnt they would fail in their responsibility to the company that pays them. The crucial question in board rooms today is not, Are we morally obligated to do it? but rather What will happen if we dont do it? or How will this affect the rate of return on our investment? No company employs a vice president in charge of ethical standards, and sooner or later the conscientious executive is likely to come up against a stone wall of corporate indifference to private moral values. In the real world of todays business, the executive is almost surely a troubled man. Many people think money is security, but I Timothy 6:9 warns that it can be just the opposite. Dennis Prager in Good News, July/Aug, 1993 has this to say: It is no wonder that in 15 years of asking high school students throughout America whether, in an emergency situation, they would save their dog or a stranger first, most students have answered that they would not save the stranger. I love my dog, I dont love the stranger, they always say. The feeling of love has supplanted God or religious principle as the moral guide for young people. What is right has been redefined in terms of what an individual fee charge. Can you imagine someone preferring to save a dog rather than saving the life of another human being? In Nigeria where human life is no longer considered as sacrosanct, some people will take similar decision. The frigidity of our conscience is majorly responsible for all the woes the entire world now goes through. Help us, Lord Jesus, help us and do it very fast too. FOR MEDITATION: Jeremiah 17:9 (NKJV) 9“The heart is deceitful above all things,And [Z]desperately wicked;Who can know it?10I, the Lord, search the heart,I test the [A]mind,Even to give every man according to his ways,According to the fruit of his doings. 11“As a partridge that [B]broods but does not hatch,So is he who gets riches, but not by right;It will leave him in the midst of his days,And at his end he will be a fool.” SHALOM, PEACE, CCI.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:39:48 +0000
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