When money comes into your life, it likes to take first place. “No servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” Money must never take God’s place in your life. Settle that forever, if you will prosper God’s way. Sometimes God slows down on our blessings because He knows that the very things we are asking Him to give us will displace Him in our lives. “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves through with many sorrows”. If I were to have something to say to the young generation of Nigerians today, it will be this; “Money is only a means of exchange. If you want to break free from poverty, keep this at the back of your mind. You will not get something for nothing.” Because there has been so much poverty and deprivation in our society today, due to mismanagement and the greed of some other people, many people want to survive at all cost. People want to make money by all means. But note this, when it comes to the issue of money, except you bring something that has value, something that has worth, something that is usable that will meet a need in somebody’s life to the market place or the place of exchange, you will not get money. It is not the absence of money that makes a person poor, it is the absence of value. If you fall into the trap of making money illegally like many people have, it will distort your values and then redefine wisdom for you. Things that were wrong before will no longer be wrong for you. “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom” but for someone who is in love with money and who wants to get it at all cost, ‘money is the beginning of wisdom and whatever he has to do to get it, is right’. Whatever will not bring it is what is wrong. So today we have people who are hurting other people and even killing others to make money. If you want to put money where it belongs in your life, sacrifice is the key. Making money is not as important as getting value. Without value, every money you make will be useless. Myles Munroe said “If the value of a thing is not known, the abuse of it is inevitable.” I realised that ultimately, what you will be abusing is your own life.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:05:00 +0000
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