Be happy with what you have

The antithesis of loving one another, loving strangers, loving prisoners and loving marriages is basically this … love yourself and what you can gain.

”Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.’“ Hebrews 13:5

In The Testament of Judah, ancient Jewish texts from the patriarch’s last words to his children, he says these words, “My children, the love of money leads to idols; because, when led astray through money, men make mention of those who are no gods, and it causes him who has it to fall into madness. For the sake of money I lost my children…” (The Testament of Judah 19).

How many families and lives are broken because of the love of money that drives work to dominate the lives of the parent so that the children are starved of the greatest commodity of love.

We should be content with what we have and if we gain more we give more.

The truth is we all like money. Most of us would like more. The reason being is obvious, we like what it does, what it gives us, where it takes us. But it is dangerous because of all of that. It can demand our attention and our desperation, our worship and our servitude.

Are you worrying about money?

Are you wanting some retail therapy today?

When was the last time you gave some money in just an act of generosity and not your tithe?

Do you tithe? Do you give more than your tithe?

Are you free from the power of money? Are you happy?

The reason for contentment is because God is with us. He will not leave us whether we have much or in need. I will never leave you. That is the promise we hold on to and that is the promise that makes us be happy with whatever we have.