5×5×5 Bible Plan
Read: I Timothy 6
Meditation: I Timothy 6:17
“Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable. Their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment.”
Shift Your Focus… I suppose this is akin to closing the barn door after the cows got out, but God’s Word has been telling us all along about the uncertainly of wealth and the foolishness of obsessing over the amassing of a financial fortune. The crisis on Wall Street and the fear and loathing on Main Street that we read about in the daily headlines were predictable, not only because of the greed and incompetence that led to it, but because the eternal Word of God said it would be so.
Given the perpetual financial black clouds that now seem to be a part of our weather patterns, I think it is high time for believers to rethink their financial philosophy. My suspicion is that most of us—and I include myself—have gotten a little too cozy with the economics of a world system that is fundamentally corrupt and inexorably headed for divine judgment.
I want to challenge you to put your financial philosophy as well as your current economic practices through the filter of I Timothy 6, and see what kind of a grade you come away with. Reread Paul’s advice to Timothy in light of this current mess; pay particular attention to what he has to say about money and our attitudes toward it. And most important, how about recalibrating your personal economic system to come into line with God’s Word?
Since the world’s economic system will become increasingly unstable, why not prepare for it by simply and ruthlessly living according to God’s precepts. One of those precepts is found in I Timothy 6:7,
“True godliness with contentment is itself great wealth.”
I am not an economist—by a long shot, but I will bet on God’s storehouse principles any day over the Treasury Secretary’s advice! And if we will follow God’s investment advice, we will have great wealth!
“The real measure of our wealth is how much we should be worth if we lost our money.” ~J. H. Jowett
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