DAY 19 - Money Makes Promises It Can’t Keep
Read It
1 Timothy 6:10
Study It
Main Street Disney World…if you have been there you know it well. The one thing I can’t get around is the smell of chocolate chip cookies floating through the air. Most people however don’t know, that’s not real cookies they are smelling. Its actually just a cookie scent that is being pumped out into the street just in front of the store.
So can you imagine how you would feel when you went in to order some cookies that you have been smelling floating all down main street and they didn’t have any because their bakery was shut down? That would be the definition of OVER PROMISE and under deliver.
But in reality…so is money. Money promises a lot. It promises to fix our problems. It promises to bring us peace. It promises to help us feel secure. Then we start buying into the “smell” of money; we start to think that having more will fix what is broken in our lives; bring peace where chaos abounds; and secure our lives in an unstable world.
Our thoughts start moving toward, ‘When I get that raise I can finally relax.”
“Once I get a little more in the bank it’ll all be smooth sailing.”
“If we can just get over this hump then we can really start to enjoy our lives.”
The promises of money seem so tangible that when they don’t materialize, it can make us feel desperate. In the end…its all just an illusion. Money doesn’t guarantee happiness; money doesn’t bring peace; and money is not the one that secures our lives. Money is a means…not an end. What God doesn’t want us to do is put more faith in money to provide, than we do in Him. Faith in money will always be disappointed.
Live It
Read It
1 Timothy 6:10
Study It
Main Street Disney World…if you have been there you know it well. The one thing I can’t get around is the smell of chocolate chip cookies floating through the air. Most people however don’t know, that’s not real cookies they are smelling. Its actually just a cookie scent that is being pumped out into the street just in front of the store.
So can you imagine how you would feel when you went in to order some cookies that you have been smelling floating all down main street and they didn’t have any because their bakery was shut down? That would be the definition of OVER PROMISE and under deliver.
But in reality…so is money. Money promises a lot. It promises to fix our problems. It promises to bring us peace. It promises to help us feel secure. Then we start buying into the “smell” of money; we start to think that having more will fix what is broken in our lives; bring peace where chaos abounds; and secure our lives in an unstable world.
Our thoughts start moving toward, ‘When I get that raise I can finally relax.”
“Once I get a little more in the bank it’ll all be smooth sailing.”
“If we can just get over this hump then we can really start to enjoy our lives.”
The promises of money seem so tangible that when they don’t materialize, it can make us feel desperate. In the end…its all just an illusion. Money doesn’t guarantee happiness; money doesn’t bring peace; and money is not the one that secures our lives. Money is a means…not an end. What God doesn’t want us to do is put more faith in money to provide, than we do in Him. Faith in money will always be disappointed.
Live It
- Do you know someone that has a lot of money/stuff/big house/nice car, and yet they are unhappy?
- In what ways have you believed the promises of money over the promises of God?