The Path to Financial Security // How to Be Money Wise, Part 3

<p>Financial Security. Now there’s something that we all want, don’t we? Question is: How to get it. The world tells us to put our faith in money. God … God has a different way. It’s not nearly as seductive as the world’s way – but that’s not the only difference. The real difference is that God’s way actually works.</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Winners and Losers</strong></span></h3> <p>Over the last couple of weeks we have been talking about money. Why? Because so many people had issues with money. Sometimes we don’t have enough; other times the desire for money and wealth and all that that brings can overwhelm us. So many of us are immersed in cultures that worship wealth: advertising that rampantly and without check promotes conspicuous consumption and governments keen to make their economies grow, who tacitly or explicitly, endorse excessive consumption.</p> <p>All that leads to a malady that sees us becoming enslaved to the idea of wealth and success, many people labouring so hard; so excessively on this treadmill, that it’s killing us. Any of that sound vaguely familiar?</p> <p>So, over the last few weeks we have been looking at that problem and how this love of and desire for money tears so many of us apart. On the one hand, we want to love God; we want to be generous and to do good in this world but on the other, many want to be wealthy and hang on to their wealth, so, becoming enslaved to it. They are like a dog with two masters.</p> <p>Today we are going to have a look at the solution. Now, I come to this whole issue of money and materialism as one who has spent most of his life – at least the first thirty six years, before I met this Jesus somewhere along the dusty road of my life – as a rampant, extreme, committed, born again materialist. I wanted to be rich.</p> <p>That’s where I came from. And perhaps you have heard me say it before, but as hard as I worked at that – and man, I worked hard and I was well on the way, you know – but as hard as I worked at that, it simply neve