Does God Want Us to Have Wealth?
Does God want us to have wealth? We can’t start this discussion without remembering that if we live in Canada
or the US, we’re in the top 2% of the world’s wealthiest people.
Don’t think that because you don’t have a million dollars you aren’t wealthy. Not a lot of people in the world have a million dollars. What falls out of your pockets in a month is more than many people earn in a month. If you find a dollar a day, you’re wealthier than 1.8 billion people in the world.
We have an incredible capacity to make wealth in North America. Money is not the root of all evil – the love of money is. Not having a love of money starts with understanding the source of wealth.
David prays to God and says:
Wealth and honor come from you; 1 Chronicles 29:12 (New International Version)
God is the ultimate source of riches and honor. It’s God who gives us the power to get wealth, and getting wealth is a sign of His covenant with you:
Deuteronomy 8:18 (New International Version)
But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.
I know you’re not all comfortable thinking this way. It makes me uncomfortable as well. I don’t want to make God out as our cosmic piggy bank, but I’m more desperate not to give up on the good He wants for me.
Why don’t we desire power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise?
I see 2 reasons why I have trouble doing so.
1. We let our experience inform our theology instead of letting the Bible interpret our experience.
“I don’t have power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise and I’ve obeyed God…therefore.”
What are you doing? You’re letting your experience inform your theology.
Why don’t we instead decide to accept and expect it?
Never forget your story is not yet done being written.
2. Because power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise can be used for evil. We’ve all seen them used for evil.
And being good Christians, and especially being good Canadians, we don’t want to risk the radical thought that God wants to give us power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise.
But here’s the thing…because you’ve obeyed God, because you fear him, seek him and obey him, your motives become pure.
He’s not going to give you anything He doesn’t trust you with.
He’s big enough to extend grace to you if you mess it up.
Do you not really believe God has the best in store for you when you obey? Check out these promises He gave the children of Israel. We’ll look at them in the next post on this topic.
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My name is Trevor Lund. I'm a Christian Speaker, Author and Lead Dreamer for Expectancy Ministries. I love to impart hope and empower destiny with creative communication, memorable motivation and applicable inspiration.
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