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Is It Still Just Money?

October 21, 2010

Ezekiel 7:19b

…Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD…

I sometimes wonder to myself why it is that I work so hard to hoard possessions and financial security. Its not that I think its wrong to steward well, or to manage our finances in a smart way…but how do we know when we’ve taken it too far? How do I know when it is become more to me than simply “being wise?”

How do I know when I am actually looking to my money and my possessions to provide some sort of identity, some sort of meaning, some sort of….something that it was never meant to?

Because the truth is…that on the day of the wrath of the Lord….when judgment comes…all my silver…and all my gold…will not be able to deliver me.

Nothing I could ever earn or acquire will be able to do for me that which I need Jesus to do….and yet sometimes, I feel as though I ask it to…

I guess my question to myself today is simply this….is my money still just money? Or has it become more?

Jesus I don’t want to make an idol out of anything…and I want my heart and my identity to rest in you alone…please call my heart to a place where I rest in only you…the one who can deliver me.

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