Security, or not

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God spoke to me today about many things, but of these I share but one:
Either way, whether rich or poor, money is about security. When you are rich, you think your security comes from your riches. And when you are poor, you think your poverty takes away the possibility of security. Poverty nullifies security in poor people's lives. It is the one thing they feel they are doomed for - a life of insecurity. They never feel secure in their environment, and in their lives. But still, they make money their marker.

Joseph Prince says that God wants us to be rich. It is a lie from the devil, he says, to believe that God's way to humble us is by making us poor. God wants the best for us, and he wants to bless us with material things too, not just spiritual things. It is not much of a concern of mine, but I am trying to get my around this. For I also know God says it is not easy for a rich man to turn his back on money. He says, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And when the rich man asked Jesus what he needed to do to enter the kingdom, God told him, he had to give it up - all of it, so he could follow Him, and the man went away sad.

So, we know that the love of money is the root of all evil, not money itself. And yet money is the one god that God knows is a temptation to the human race, for He says, you cannot serve both money and the true God. You cannot have two masters. You need to choose one.

The irony about security or lack thereof is indeed that when you live right, you do not live in fear, and when you live not in fear, you live in freedom. And when you are free, you are secure, because you depend not on what is around you but on who is inside you.

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