Money, Money, Money, Money

“Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?”

― John Wesley

In my lifetime I have experienced a great inheritance of wealth.  I can remember and often empty refrigerator, no television, sleeping four to a room and a family car with no back seat and me and all my siblings standing up holding on to the back of the front seat.  I can never remember being poor. 

Now my refrigerator is always full, I have two televisions, one 42” wide, I live alone with my wife in a four bedroom home, have a van and a brand new truck and I am concerned about being poor toward those less fortunate than myself.   

It always does me good to be reminded of the need to think about how I spend the money that God loaned me.