Before i start to share about this topic today, i would like to say that im super-duper weak christian in this particular area. In this year, 2009, it seems like people are suffering of economic crisis and it makes them never to miss a chance to gain more money to feed their wallet. The more money they gained, the more secure they owned. Some people told me that if you want to be secured and to be confident in this world, you have to be rich enough, so that you can speak confidently. It seems like funny and ridiculous theory that man gave me. Anyway, at that time, this 'theory' made a deep impact in my thinking system. The way i think already influenced by this stupid 'theory'. I turned to money-minded, no money then no talk, and if my wallet less than RM 50 then i will choose to be at home rather than go out with friends because of no confidence to step out from my house...Although Im a christian but i was doing some underground business which are illegal and dangerous business. Until God's warning came upon me last 2months before our Chinese New Year. If you re closed enough to me then you might know the incident...From that time onwards, i told to God for the Grace, i proclaimed that i will never touch this kind of UnGodly business anymore.Frankly speaking, you will only seek God when you have troubles.There is a turning point for me before Chinese New Year, really a breakthrough for me to give up all kinds of illegal stuff..God is Mercy, God is Good and God is Holy...Hallelujah...For the Sake of God's kingdom, im willing to surrender all of these to Him...
Hebrews 13:5 - Keep your lives free from love of money
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."
"...be content with what you have" - doesn't that sound strange in our consumer driven culture? We have created a co-dependence upon the latest model, the newest technology, or the most desired. Part of the economic crisis that we have created is based on people not buying unnecessary stuff anymore. Yet to tighten the belt economically and being free from the love of money are two different things. We can stop spending but still be consumed with our net worth. In other words, the love of money (whether we have it or not) can easily become a cheap imitation of the satisfaction that only God can give. The current economy becomes a brilliant litmus test of where our sense of well being comes from.
"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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