So, here are some random thoughts as I reflect on yesterday's sermon and think about how to shepherd our children through such a twisted web of thinking:
- Like all temptation, material goods and wealth make a "promise" of the good life which they are wholly unable to provide.
- Better to give to much than too little.
- Not only can material goods not be taken into glory, but moths and rust will destroy most of what we possess long before we even get to glory.
- When making purchases, learn to ask, "If I purchase this, will I possess it, or will it possess (control) me?"
- Having money is not an intrinsic evidence of God's blessing (and neither is not having money).
- It is just as possible to be poor and greedy as rich and greedy.
- Biblically, debt is only that obligation which I cannot repay; however, even debt that is within our means to repay will generally be an impairment to joy and the ministry of giving.
- Give God your life before you give Him your money (2 Cor. 8:5).
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