Never Meant To Give Us Life….

Here’s one truth that should help influence our view of the role money plays in this life. Money can’t buy salvation. It can’t make you right with God. It may be able to buy some friends. It may help you with treating some infirmities. It may even provide you with some fleeting comforts in life. But in the end, money is only meant to help us get through life. It was never meant to give us life. Yet there are so many people out there pursuing its possession, thinking, “if I only get more I’ll be happy, I’ll be content, I’ll arrive.” Don’t get me wrong, money is necessary to live, but it’s our attitude towards it that actually allows us to really live. If money can’t rescue us from death, or purchase our salvation, then why do we pursue it so fervently? Shouldn’t we pursue that which brings “True Life”? Shouldn’t we invest our time in things that will outlast this life (be eternal)? When we come to the understanding of the true purpose of money, we begin to see what’s truly worthy of our pursuits here on earth.

6 They trust in their wealth and boast of great riches.7 Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death by paying a ransom to God.8 Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can ever pay enough9 to live forever and never see the grave. Psalms 49:6-9