The funny thing about money is that we often get so tied up in our heads with the partnering, planning, preparing and implementation of our “financial strategies” that we rarely begin at the beginning.
Money was originally intended to facilitate mutually beneficial relationships between people. Most of us can cite many, many situations in which money seemed to destroy a relationship. There is no doubt that it can and will surface relationship issues like few other things can. But, in fact, money was created to be a simpler mode for the exchange goods and services than the barter system.
How can something that was created for the purpose of simplifying our exchanges have become so warped? Although we have talked about it before I want to remind you: money is energy and has no character in and of itself except that which we give it. One of the challenges that money has presented is that we have allowed it to draw us into a mindset of relative worth and value. And guess who the arbiters of those values are?
While it is true that we have the God-given ability to discern, most of us rarely use that gift to manage our financial lives. Instead we allow the noise of the world to construct a value system for us. When we align our ideas of relative value with the world, we are excluding God.
To begin at the beginning, we must begin and end every financial consideration with a consultation with our right and true partner, God. When we understand that God is the Source of all, this is the only reasonable place to start. When we are grounded in this partnership there is nothing that is impossible.
But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Matt 6:33
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