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| Essential 100 -- "Love of" Money | | Date Created: May 10, 2005, 07:09 AM |
87 — Tuesday May 10 — 1 Timothy 6:3-21
Lots of folks, some folks for whom I've got lots of respect in fact, have to believe that this teaching is exaggeration to make a point. What it means for them is that if you come to a point where you have to choose between a healthy company or healthy people, you'd rather let the company die than the people.
But that's not what Paul is talking about. He's not saying "pursue economic stability, but some things are more important, so you won't always achieve it." He's disagreeing with our whole way of thinking, our whole way of life. It's even crept into our most basic metaphors: we're always saying things like "the bottom line is this" or "it's like money in the bank" or "what's the cash value of that".
Money is something we can quantify. It's much harder to do that with relationships. "How much do you love me?" "Six thousand." Doesn't work. Yet Paul tells us not to put our hope "in wealth, which is so uncertain, but put [your] hope in God who richly provides us with everything" (1 Tim. 4:17). |
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