Saturday, April 13, 2019

what money is for


Jesus tells a very unusual and puzzling story today in the One Year Bible, in Luke 16:1-18. He tells the story of a man who loses his job, and before he leaves he cheats his boss out of lots of money. Jesus tells this story as though the cheater is the hero. And he commends his shrewdness.

But He does make sense of this story in the way He sums it up. "Use the things of this world to make friends," He says. And that does a great job of summing up what money is for in our lives, doesn't it?

What treasures can we take with us when we die? We talked about this a little in a previous blog. But the only real TANGIBLE things that we can take with us to heaven is other people. So using the treasures we have in this life, the money we're able to make in whatever way our work brings it to us, to make friends - to help people - to bless people's lives... that's the way we transform this world's gold into eternity's immutable treasure.

God, thanks for teaching us what money is for.

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