Building Wealth Without Losing Your Soul

Building Wealth and Financing the Kingdom Without Losing Your Soul

Preface

Success, money, business and economics, among other related areas of life, have been given a bad name by many confused and deceived people using bits and pieces of the Bible to suggest God isn't interested in, or opposes these types of things, because they represent the pursuit of riches and love of money, which can in fact lead to all sorts of evils.

While it's true the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, money in and of itself isn't, as it's nothing more or less than a medium of exchange, which is used to buy goods or services. Christians can be tempted to pursue money in an extreme way, as they get caught up in craving more for themselves in this life than may be good for their spiritual walk. That doesn't make money evil, it simply identifies the heart of man as having the potential to be corrupt, and forsaking everything in order to get more.

People like this never are satisfied, and their wants and needs can be insatiable. We could say the same about any area of life, which if we focus on it to the exclusion of other areas, we can suffer loss. For example, someone could be an obsessive eater, abuse alcohol, or neglect their family and training of their children in the pursuit of wealth or their own individual goals. That doesn't mean what is being pursued is wrong, only that there are other areas of life that must be paid attention to. That's the reason God told Israel before they entered the promised land that He had tested them over the period of 40 years so they would learn that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, i.e., the Bible or Holy Scriptures. It was also the first temptation experienced by Jesus after He had fasted for forty days, when the devil attempted to get Him to change the stones into bread. His response was that man does not live by bread alone.

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