money

Everything takes money.
Good objectives and well as bad objectives take money. It takes money to flush your toilet, to take a drink, or turn on a light. It takes money to start your car and keep it running. It takes money to eat. It takes money to have a roof over your head. It takes money to get an education. It takes money to raise children, start a family, provide for a wife, and take care of your parents when they are old. It takes money to pay bills and taxes and taxes and taxes. It takes money to have clothes. It takes money to be clean and smell good. It takes money to run business. It takes money to run governments. It takes money to watch TV, movies, or plays. It takes money. It takes money to buy illegal drugs. It takes money to buy guns. It takes money to get a prostitute. It takes money to go to strip clubs and bars. It takes money to run crime.
Prostitutes prostitute for money. Pimps pimp for money. Drug dealers are making money. Celebrities are making money. Politicians are making money. Thieves are looking for money. If you work at Wal-Mart or McDonalds it is for money. If you work it is for money. Products make money. Commercials make money. Governments make money. You make money. I make money. Our children will make money. Our great great grandparents made money.
This world runs on money, poor third world countries run on money, large industrial nations run on money. Every organization, for profit or not, runs on money.
It would seem that money runs this world. Yet it doesn’t. It would seem the one thing necessary is money, yet it isn’t. It appears money meets every need, scratches every itch and satisfies every longing. It doesn’t. Money calls out to us, “serve me! I will make everything alright! I will fix every problem! With me there is nothing you cannot do! Me! Money! I can make you happy! I can lift your burdens! Think of the freedom I give, just serve me! Bow before me and surrender your life and I will bless you”
How money seems to be what we need, the answer we long for, yet, its promise is empty. For we were not made for money, but money was made for us. We were made, created, for one purpose, and that is God and His glory. And in this purpose we have failed. And though this world tells us the one thing necessary is money, the truth is the one thing necessary isn’t a thing, but a Person, Jesus Christ. He alone can restore man to His Creator. Jesus alone can heal the broken hearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, set at liberty those that are oppressed. Your greatest need is not money, it is Jesus. Your greatest need is not food, shelter, or water. Your greatest need is forgiveness from God and reconciliation with God. Money cannot do this. Money can do nothing. Jesus, offering Himself as a sacrifice in the place of sinners, is everything. We cannot have two masters, and woe is us if we neglect so great a salvation and so great a Savior.