Who Wants To Be Wealthy?

Benjamin Franklin once said “early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”,  but that is not true.  I went to bed early once and when I woke up I was just as sick, just as broke and just as dumb as I ever was.

     The reason Ponzi schemes are so successful, is because of the underlying desire to be wealthy.  The thought of becoming wealthy without working too hard for it is even more alluring.  None of us can live without money.  The question isn’t the necessity of money, but the attitude we harbor about money.  Finding the middle ground between loving and loathing money is a quest worthy of our attention, discipline and training.

     The Bible gives a good reason for desiring to be wealthy.  I caution you before I give it to you, it’s tricky.  It’s one of those things that sounds good and is easy to say, but I think extremely hard to be pure about.  Ephesians 4:28 says; Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.  Did you see it?  A purely motivated person would want wealth so he will have something to share with those who are in need.  I told you didn’t I?  That sounds so good and it is easy to say, but, (now I’m speaking for me) I have other selfish reasons for wanting to be wealthy.  What the scripture really teaches is that money in itself is not wrong, my heart is what determines it.  If I love money the wrong way or too much then I am flirting with the root of all kinds of evil.  (I Timothy 6:10)  God cares about my heart more than anything else, He always has and He always will.