Money cannot buy health or save
someone’s life. The Bible says that we are to seek the true riches of God, not
the riches of this world. His riches are things that money cannot buy. How can
money deliver a wayward teenager from drugs and sin? How can money buy peace in
our souls in the face of fear all around us? How can money save a soul from
hell? Only God’s riches are available to do these things. We are truly rich
when we have faith in God.
Certainly, God does want to bless us
with material things, but it will be Him that we are seeking when these things
come, not the things themselves. Many today are seeking God for what He can do
for them, instead of asking God how they can serve Him. We cannot seek money
and God at the same time.
“If therefore ye have not been
faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will commit to your trust the true
riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who
shall give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters: for
either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the
one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and money” (Luke
16:11-13).
Application:
For the remainder of your day, remember to put God first and not worry about
the issues of this world. As we are taught in Matthew 6:19-21 – “Lay not
up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and
where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not
break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be
also.”