Sometimes I wish we would go back to a society where we didn't have money - paper and coins - but instead traded what we have made or grown. I wish we would go back to a society where we didn't try to define the worth of our jobs by the money we make or the worth of our lives by how many things we have accumulated. Yet, here we find ourselves, paper money and all.
Rev. Mike Slaughter once said that most of us don't seek after the will of God, instead we want God to bless our will. I think thats one of the things that makes having discussion about stewardship in churches so hard. We want to be told that its okay to be in tremendous amounts of debt and not tithe, because thats the society we live in. Yet, its not scriptural. Its not the plan God has for us. And we've let our will of accumulating things, get in the way of following God's will for us for God's kingdom.
We need to start thinking of plan to get out of debt. We need to stop defining our worth by our paychecks. We need to start living within our means. And we need to start giving our very best to the Kingdom of God. Church, we need to rethink our relationship to money and live in an intentional way that honors God with our resources, even it its hard and takes a lot of steps to get there. Lets renounce the idols of this world, so that we can proclaim the Kingdom of God, both in this world and the world to come.
(Reblog of Shiny Gods - Part 1, 10/3/16)
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