Is Money the Root of All Evil?

 

~~~ 1 Timothy 6:2c-12 ~~~ Psalm 49 ~~~ Luke 8:1-3 ~~~

 

...the love of money is the root of all evils...

 

Love...Money...Evil

 

Money itself is not evil, but rather it is the attitude

of the one who has the money.

Is money what we value the most?

Is money really everything?

We do need a certain amount of money in order to live in this world.

 

There are some people who have more money

than they need and there are those

who barely get enough money to buy the necessities.

There are those individuals who are very generous

with their money, they give to charities.

There are some wealthy who even leave endowment funds.

 

The key word in the verse about money is the word love.

Love is a strong emotional word.

Does it really belong coupled with money?

 

Recently there have been many studies concerning

money and happiness with surprising results.

The overwhelming conclusion is that more money does not

translate to greater happiness.

Money is a tool.

Many times we just throw more money into a project

only to find that it fails any way.

 

Recently there have been huge power ball lottery winners.

I wonder if they are really that much happier or is it a means

 to just become a grand foolish person.

Does more money simply give us the permission

to spend more frivolously?

 

In reality you can be happy if you are poor

and you can be happy if you are wealthy.

The opposite is also true because it is not the money

 that determines a persons happiness.

 

It is true that the more money you have at your disposal

the more choices are set before you.

 

Jesus did not have money, but he did have many choices.

Three women accompanied Jesus and his apostles on their journeys.

These three women came from very different backgrounds.

I wonder how they came to be the three who traveled with Jesus?

These three named women...

Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza,
Susanna

coming from diverse backgrounds.

They came together for a common purpose...to serve Jesus and his twelve men.

These women served Jesus in the background.

They most likely told their friends

much about what they heard and saw

through the service of the Lord.

 

These three women represent the diversity

of even the women who followed Jesus.

From sinners to the well off; all can serve the Lord.

 

This is where the dilemma lies with having money.

Does money prevent one from serving the Lord?

Is it just too difficult to have the distraction of money.

When given the choice of serving God

or having money which does one choose?

The question remains;

is money really the root of all evil?

 

Blessings come through discerning

what is worth loving.

Money can certainly not be the end all for either happiness or evil,

but rather it is how we value our money.