Sunday, August 5, 2001
Sunday, August 5, 2001
You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in
heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
The rich man answered like this: "My parents taught us that everything in our home was either
an idol or a tool." That's the difference: money as an idol or a tool, money as a servant or a
master, money as a means or an end.
Industrialist Armand Hammer once said, "Money is my first, last and only love." If so, that is
sad. Money is only an instrument, not the symphony itself.
We are but temporary stewards of all we have. God is the owner.
(Exodus
20:4
NRSV)
Bible teacher Howard Hendricks tells about dining with a rich man from a blueblood Boston
family. Hendricks asked him, "How in the world did you grow up in the midst of such wealth and
not be consumed by materialism?"
Loving God, you have blessed me with much. May I always remember that is all belongs to you.
Amen.
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