Last Updated on March 13, 2024 by Val Waldeck
Is Your Wealth a Reflection of Your Standing With God? Can God Trust You With Wealth?
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1 Timothy 6:10
Life in the Fast Lane
And seven sons and three daughters were born to him. Also, his possessions were 7000 sheep, 3000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East” (Job 1:2,3).
JOB was a rich man. He had a large family, a huge staff working for him, and many possessions. This was a man God could trust with wealth.
Jesus said that it is very hard for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 19:23) because his money often becomes his “god.” Where our treasure is, there our heart is also (Matt. 6:21).
Truly rich is the individual who is so spiritually rich that his material wealth becomes a vehicle to bless others in obedience to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Job was a man like that.
I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. Philippians 4:12-13
Job, a Man God Could Trust With Wealth
Take note of the extent of Job’s wealth. We will be coming back to this list of blessings towards the end of this series of meditations on the Book of Job. Here is a man the Lord could trust with great wealth.
Job understood he was the steward of all God had entrusted to him. “I delivered the poor who cried out, and the fatherless and he who had no helper… I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy… I was eyes to the blind…feet to the lame… a father to the poor” (Job 29:12-16).
How it must grieve the heart of God when He wants to help someone, and we refuse to part with His provision entrusted into our hands. #FaithfulWithMoney Share on XJames spells out the operation of genuine faith. “If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,’ but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?” (James 2:15,16).
For many in our generation, life in the fast lane ends up leading to self-centredness, with the resulting stress of “doing it my way.” What is your life like today? Can God trust you with wealth?
Prayer:
Keep me today and in the days to come from all pride and self-conceit. Help me to remember that without You I can do nothing and all that I have is Yours. So keep me all my days in humility and in gratitude to You, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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