Your Provision

Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Before I became a Christian, I was all about the cash and hard after the American dream of a big wallet and a nice house. Every where I looked and dreamed, cash was the answer to cure all of my ills. It consumed my thoughts, conversations and lifestyle, as it truly had a hold on me. As a result of lusting after cash, I did earn a good bit of it, the main problem was that I spent a whole lot more. You could easily say that I poured out my worship of money in many ways, but mostly with a credit card. Like many Americans the false worship of money left me further away from God, and in a debt that I chose for me and my wife and family. I think it is very safe to say that I was not exactly modeling Christ to Evie and my kids. Well I praise God that he allowed me to come to the end of my self, and truly lay my life down and pick up my Cross.

We all need to answer one huge question: Where do you get your provision? If that answer truly at the core of your soul is money and not God then, Houston, we have a problem. A big, big problem. If we truly think the source of our provision is in our money then we are trusting that INSTEAD of and in the PLACE of God, and that is the exact definition of idolatry. There is a strong temptation to fight this truth (I know personally) and say well I'm giving God some...I give some to the church and help out others when I can. So did the Pharisees, whose heart was so cold they did not recognize Jesus when He sat in their house and ate.

In the words of Alistair Begg:

Money can by you a house, but it can not by you a home;
Money can buy you a bed, but it can not buy you sleep;
Money can buy you a cross, but it can not buy you a savior;
Money can buy you a lot, but it cannot make you RICH.

Chances are that at some point in all of our lives we have run head over heals in pursuit of the idol-god of Money. I hope that if you are in that spot presently, you will repent and praise God instead.