Money Pit

     Money can be one of the greatest stumbling blocks that a Christian can face. It seems that either people reject money or worship it. Those who reject it cling to the mindset that money is evil or will lead to their personal destruction. Though this can be true it can become a point of impasse. How money is handled does reflect on the depth of faith and regard for YHVH’s commands in the area of finance. I believe that one of the commands to Christians is about helping the poor. As you look through biblical history you will note that many Christians had money. In fact it is noted that we should be the lenders and givers to the world. But what can you lend if you have so little you are struggling to tend your own needs. The bible promises that YHVH will tend our needs and more. However trusting HIM for our needs and the wisdom to handle what we have is required. To turn away from finance in declaration of desire of poverty is either an act of faithlessness or an act of not caring about wealth. My biggest struggle with someone who has no care about wealth limits themselves in being obedient to the scripture. There are many bible verses that tell us to reach out to those less fortunate. One of the greatest ways to reach out to an unbelieving world is help them with needs that are currently being unmet by the world system. In fact I believe that the world system has no business providing for the poor. The bible calls the church to take action. Yet these days churches tell people “we don’t do that” or “we only help official members”. This is a dark time for churches as the constantly call out for the tithe, yet never look to Yeshua and how He ran His preaching practices. He never requested money from those in attendance but always was tending their needs.

       The next struggle with money of coarse is a much darker one. It takes the form of idolatry very quickly. Dependence on money rather than YHVH for our needs is very easy as wealth grows. If our faith and trust cannot handle wealth the bible says we shall only receive that which we can be trusted with. This contains wisdom and insult to some degree. Better to save the person than lose them to worldly wealth. Yet it is also an insult that the person is not trustable with more than a pittance of financial ability. Why would a person not request to YHVH wisdom and trust in Him to a greater degree so that obedience can be followed through. The fact that a person does not states something large about their personality and the limits of their willingness to grow in faith. However on the opposite pole of this is those who attain small amounts of worldly wealth and become stuck on it. They never find a greater depth to their faith because they no longer seek YHVH for their needs. They can provide for themselves. And when things come easy to us by apparent use of our own abilities it is very easy to forget whom all things come from.

      It is my thoughts that money is a stumbling block placed in life to cause us to seek YHVH with all that we are. If you have little you seek HIM by asking HIM to grant you the faith and wisdom to handle more. If you do not do this you are limiting your own growth. If you have so much wealth that you don’t seek HIM, again you are limiting your spiritual growth. The idea here is this. If you seek to be faithful in all things and desire that your faith would grow no matter what, money no longer becomes an issue of any significant hindrance. In fact as you place your willingness to obey HIM in all things especially money you will find that you can move on to greater things of faith. Money is like a gate way with many riches sitting on the threshold. What is beyond the gateway is growth in faith to those promises mentioned in the bible. Such as being able to throw mountains into the sea. But there are two traps at the gate, greed and fear. If greed takes you over you will get stuck at the gateway and never go beyond into the depths of faith where the real gifts from YHVH are. The other trap is fear. Which means you run from the gateway in fear that you will obsess. Neither trap allow faith and obedience to grow. But it is better to run in fear than to get trapped by greed and become delusional about your own abilities. My personal choice is to request my faith and obedience will grow so that I might handle greater wealth and greater gifts that lie beyond gate way of monetary wealth.