What’s my point in writing all these posts about money?
My point is this: We don’t need as much of it as we think we
do and we need to stop looking at what the perceivably rich people have and
gorging ourselves over their apparent wealth and our apparent poverty. There’s
a word for all this you know, “Coveting.”
Let’s just rebrand this whole “Inequality of Wealth” deal in
America to either a) “We’re Babies and Want the Other Kid’s Legos” or b)
“Selfish Coveters Who Are OK with Demanding to Have Your Stuff.” Take your
pick. Folks the grass is always greener somewhere else (sound familiar? Like
your mom said it when you were an incapable child?).
Take what you are given, what you earn (by the extravagant
grace, mercy and love of God who let you live, allowed you a job, and set you
in America) and use it wisely and shrewdly.
Remember that it is God who gives and takes away and that
those enormously wealthy people will have a hard time coming to the fountain of
grace because their money will hold them back. Remember that you too are one of
the 1% of the world by living in America and that to those to whom much is
given much will be expected. Remember to thank the Lord for his great provision
in your life and give to him your tithes and offerings. Remember God is King
and you; you are not. Remember that it’s free grace that saves our damnably
wretched souls and it is free mercy that rains down in our heart to make us
even notice God. Remember our biggest problem is our sinful rebellion against
God NOT the lack of some odd little trinket that will lose its entire luster in
a week.
