Luke 16:13-15
The title of the Sunday school
lesson is “Manage Money Well.”
The first subtitle that we study is “What do you think about
money?” Money is a faith-based
instrument. Our currency hasn’t
any real value other than the faith the world places in us to keep working and
producing which in turn endows the currency with value. Let’s look at it this way. In 1974, when I started driving I could
buy two gallons of gas with one dollar.
Today it takes me four dollars to buy one gallon. If I had a dollar printed in 1974 and
took it to Exxon today, they would not give me two gallons of gas for it because
it has no real value. The value is
assigned to it by the world’s faith and is now worth about 1/8 of what it was
worth then.
We always need to keep this upper
most in our minds when thinking of God and our money. Here’s why. In
this passage Jesus speaks to the wealthy, “You are the ones who justify yourselves
in the sight of others…” Jesus knows that humans are often susceptible to the
temptations of wealth. One of
those is basing our value or “justification” on the amount of money we or someone
else have. But remember, if that
is the case, I’m only 1/8th as valuable as I was in 1974.
Money is not very faithful!!!
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