MONEY MONEY MONEY

I was reading Pernell's blog yesterday, and he went off on something I have been interested in for a while. This whole idea of the "Prosperity Gospel," the idea that if we are good little middle class Christians God will reward us with more money then we could ever imagine. I don't buy into that one iota. You see I agree that God can bless us with money and material possessions but he doesn't want us to use it for selfish reasons or hoard it. God wants us to give it away. This is certainly an area of life that is difficult for many of us to give over to God, because we want so desperately to cling to the resources "we earned with our own hard work" we need to remember in this screwed up world, the richer I get or you get the poorer someone else gets.

If you are blessed to have the nice house, the great job, the good cars remember most of the world isn't and give God what is God after you "give Caesar what is Caesars (taxation - completely unrelated but I love it when Jesus throws stuff in the "MANS" face)."

Remember the rich young ruler, Jesus called him to give up everything and he couldn't. The more we hoard and cling to the harder it is to separate our selves from money. Its not a sin to make money, its what we do with our money that truly shows where are heart lies.

Peace