You’ve probably dreamed awake of being very rich before, haven’t you?You may have heard of the latest billion-dollar technology that turned an app into gold when it was sold to Facebook or Google. Or maybe lotteries with their hundreds of millions of prizes or the guy who made a small investment in the right company at the right time. You found out and you thought, “I wish I was rich, I know what I’d do with that money?”
If you had dreamed awake, you may have thought about what a generous Christian could do with hundreds of millions of dollars. Think about the businesses you might maintain, the churches you could build, the missionaries you could support. Let your imagination run wild for a few minutes and you could come up with a plan to spend every dollar and penny for the good of the Kingdom. And you would, wouldn’t you?
- In all likelihood.
- You’ll never be rich.
- You’ll never have hundreds of millions of dollars to allocate to one department or another.
- He’ll never be someone to divide his billions before he dies.
- But you don’t need a million or a billion to know what you’d do with it.
- Lots of money.
- You can simply view your current standards and designs from here.
- If you’re not generously generous with how little you have now.
- What makes you think that having more would make all the difference like that.
- All of a sudden?it’s not about how much you have.
- It’s about what you do with what little you have.
- Not what you’d do with more.
- It’s about what you actually do with what you have.
How do you use the wealth God has already given you?Are you being careful?Does this make enough to make a difference for you and your family (to the extent that you have less than you would have) and for the lives or ministry of others (as long as you have more than you would have)?If you are not generous today with modest wealth, there is no reason to think that tomorrow you would be generous with abundant wealth.
I am impressed by the fact that in the parable of Jesus’ talents (Matthew 25), the questions and expectations are the same for the three servants, whether they have received five talents or one. The characteristic of faithful co-responsibility was proportional to what he had had. had been entrusted to them by their master. He who had received five returned ten, the other two four; There was no comparison or competition between them, for each had been equally faithful to his various gifts; it is very likely that God will never call you to be that servant of the five talents, who had received an exorbitant wealth. you one or two, is the waiting the same, that you will handle it with joy and generosity to do God’s work on earth.
Do you have enough money? Enough to do what God wants you to do, enough to show him your loyalty to him and your disloyalties toward money. You have enough to make a difference in your lives and departments; Be as generous or stingy as you would billions. Instead of spending your days dreaming what it would be like if you had more, spend them working hard to earn a living and give joyfully (see Ephesians 4:28; 1Q 4. 11). When the day comes when God will hold you accountable for all that He has entrusted to you, I suspect you will be glad that He does not trust you even more. I suspect you’ll agree with your wisdom by giving yourself only two talents. or one.
By: Tim Challies. ©, 2016 Tim Challies. Original: I’d like to be rich.
Translation: Leonardo Bruno Galdino. © 2016 Faithful Ministério. All rights reserved. Website: MinistryFiel. com. br. Original: I would like to be rich.
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