thread post,
Boy mention God and music and God and money and you are asking for it.
well..I covered the music and now about money.
God really doens't think much about money.
Heaven is described as paving the streets with gold.
I really cannot understand the issue with gold when God puts it in the streets. He builds the doors with pearls. Through out history man has this obsession with money.
Even christians try to accumulate it for whatever reason I don't know, but I will not judge them or their motives.
I've commented on what some think are large gifts and I'm committed to
making sure that our poorer christian brothers and sisters in foreign
countries get whatever finances they need to have a modest church and bibles.
Let me clue you in. I don't think money is anything. I use it where God says. It would be great for God to just rain this stuff on ministries. He chooses not to do this.
But, the story of the widows mite that Jesus told has several meanings and one of them is that unless a person's life style is changed by the giving then they didn't give anything.
I hear of philantrophist giving 100 million to so and so. i don't
think one way or the other about it. The amount means nothing in spiritual terms. But, I do not, I will not judge the gift. I let the Creator do that, but if that 100 million dollar gift didn't change the life style of that person then they reaally cannot say they gave anything. And, I know poeple who sacrificed and gave up their vacation money in a month and it was $300.00 and it was a lot more than I gave this last month. My giving does change my life style
but, I still had a nice vacation and this family didn'thave one.
So, the amounts of the gifts don't count for much and this is what Jesus was saying when He was in the temple and described the widow's mite and what she gave and how it was more than all the others that dropped in purses of temple coins.
So, I can assure this thread of one thing. Money means nothing to me. I wish i could say that it was as nothing as it is to God , but I don't do anything as good as God not even close.
But, I think nothing about finding a need and asking God to help me meet that need. I've learn to balance myself out in this matter since
my family should be taken care of. And, God doesn't need me for anything. If I don't obey, He has people lined up and ready to step in. He will get the job done.
But, know one thing. money to me doens't count for much. i certainly don't measure spirtually by it.
God Bless
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