rodimus said:
“As human beings,
we need some of the greens,
that’s why god created money.”
Ok seriously, for me, as your spiritual understanding grows, the more happy and abundant you become. Having more supply of money, without making it something to lie or cheat for, and without any negativity about having it. Ie, without making it something you worship.
Guilt and concepts of sin attached to money is unnecessary. Money is just paper and metal coins, and we attach value to it. We do not say paper is evil or metal is evil, therefore those who say money is evil (sin) is not condemning the object, but their own subjective concepts of money.
Yet if you have lots of money without spirituality, you can feel really empty inside.
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Dear Rodimus,
1. While in general, I agree with what you have posted to a large extent, I also wish to specifically point out for accuracy sake, that in the Bible, it is written that it is the LOVE for MONIES is the root of all evils (and not MONIES per se alone which you have correctly pointed out too in your post) .
2. To me, this clarification is important and I wish to further emphasise it here because I know that to some Christians, (including myself previously), we sometime "mis-read" the Bible and have wrongly presumed and generalise that " it is MONEY (per se) that is the root of all evils" and therefore "monies is bad", thereby developing a wrong Biblical concept of "Monies". Consequently, as you have ocrrectly pointed out, I did some time felt "guilty" in the past about having monies as a child as I came from a middle class family background,.
3. As I grow up in my own Christian faith and search the Bible myself and re-learn this truth about "Monies", I came to realise for myself that actually God wants Christians to prosper and to be rich and wealthy on their earthly lives, both spiritually and materially ( just as he has prospered Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Job and the Israelites when they are obedient unto Him in the past). Hoever, the materially rich Christians will have to continually bear in mind that their given material wealth actually belongs to God Himself and that they are mere stewards of God's monies, and to manage the givden monies undeer their stewardship wisely, to carry out God's works and do good deeds on this earth. The moments we forget that, and try to selfishly assume/exert our own human control of our own material wealth and allow our love for Monies to supercede our own love for God or/and use/hoard the given monies selfishly, we would have sinned against God, as it is written in the Bible. And soon we will start to realise that the given MONIES will start to leave us, by itself eventually.
4. On the other hand, it is interesting to observe that when the MONIES is properly managed and put into correct use to do good deeds and to serve others and make this world a better place to live for all, the entrusted MONIES will (inevitably) soon multiply itself and return manifolds to its rightful owners who have exercised good stewardship over it.
5. Having said this, however I am not saying that therefore all Christians should start to accumulate monies during their earthly lives as a form of godliness. Each of us has our own specific calling in life and not all of us are called to create/accumulate wealth for the Lord's sake. Ultimately, what truly counts and counts most to God, is our own attitude towards Him and how we value our own relationship with HIM, irrespective of whether we are materially rich or poor, despite our different social standing status, different races, different languages, different cultures etc.
6. You are definitely right that when a person have monies without spirituality, they do sometimes feel a big emptiness in their lives and that the richer they get, the more empty they find their own earthly lives to be until such times that they beign to realise their true life destiny and learn to share/give away part of wealth to do charity works or/and find new joys in sharing their wealth with the poor and the rest of the world, and subsequently to re-discover the true meaning of life for themselves. Others find that due to their increasingly emptiness in their own earthly lives as they get richer materially, they start to abandon/ignore/neglect their material wealth and start to search for the true meaning of life for themselves. Eventually, some of the these previously rich people, some time give away their wealth completely and begin to discover new happiness for themselves being an average "joe", being truly contented with their simple lives, embarking/pursueing their own spiritual journey, for they have discovered the new and true meaning in their own lives, having found the new un-describable joys which they have not experienced previously.
7. Such is a mystery of life... and the "elusiviness" of wealth as some people would have eventually discovered for themsevles.... some with new found joys for their new meaning in life, others with much life regrets for themselves, spending most of their earthly time chasing after the elusive wealth and its illusion of being rich in life, working very hard and spending their entire life-time accumulating the MONIE but only to see it taken away/lose it during their old age.
8. Thus, I believe, to each our own, and depending of our own life calling, we will eventually DO what we are called to do in life if we are to attain true happiness during our earthly days.
9. For your kind update, please.
10. Thank you.
regards,
Kenneth KOH.