3. Money Provides Competing Avenues for Satisfaction.
Money means, among other things, access. Access to entertainment, access to luxury, access to all kinds of things. And the more access we have to things, the more we will tend to find our satisfaction in those things. This is another way money can lure us from the faith. We suddenly have all kinds of avenues to pursue pleasure and satisfaction that weren’t available to us previously.
We can begin to wander from the faith when, over the course of time, we are finding our joy and satisfaction in avenues other than Jesus.
4. Money Bolsters Our Self-Sufficiency.
Here’s one other reason why money can be such a tempting lure: It’s because the more money we have, the safer we tend to feel. And that sense of security is very, very appealing. But the security we are meant to find as Christians shouldn’t be in our bank account or our 401K’s—at least not ultimately. It should be in Christ and in him alone.
The more money we have the more we tend to look to those resources for that security, and in that, we become ever more self-sufficient instead of reliant on Jesus. We trick ourselves into believing the lie of our own press rather than remembering our abject need of Jesus.
Friends, we will accumulate. More and more. But let’s be careful as we do. Let’s be aware of the lure in our path lest our focus start to lead us from the faith.
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