I want to be wealthy. Is that really a bad thing? I don't think so. Money is like guns. Guns by themselves don't harm people. If you sat a gun on the table and never touched it, it wouldn't do anything. But put that gun in the hand of a human being and there would be trouble. Money is the same way. By itself, it doesn't do anything... except get dusty. Money magnifies someone's character; whatever you are/were like without it is what you'll be like when you have it. But now I'm way off course with what I originally wanted to say about wealth and money. The question comes and I don't mind your opinion, does God "call" people to be wealthy? And if the answer is "yes", then why does it seem the institutionalized church is against it?
Comments (2)
Maybe because encouragement may stimulate the institutional acruement of money: which is history has never gone over too well.
But maybe it has a lot to do with "the last will be first". Even the Son of man had no place to rest his head...
I don't know about being "called" to be wealthy - but I definitely think that God blesses people with wealth. I do think that people who are blessed with more material riches than others will be called to account for how they used their wealth.
My question for you is what is your motivation for wanting to be wealthy? Do you want the prestige that comes along with that status symbol? Or are there other reasons?
Love,
Vicki