Is my wealth being used to honor God?
One of the most convicting quotes in recent time that I have run across:
The evidence that many…are not rich toward God is how little they give and how much they own…. We can only justify the exorbitance of our lifestyle by ignoring the lostness of the unreached and the misery of the poor.
–John Piper
Ouch.
Why has God given me so much? To bless me? or to use it to share Him with the rest of the lost and unreached world? Perhaps to help alleviate the misery of those in need and in poverty? And yet, too often I only use it to continue to gain more stuff and luxury and comfort for myself.
Father, help me to know how to properly use the material blessings that you have blessed me with to bless you by using it to share you with the world. May I not consider the finances you have blessed me with my own, but rather realize that you have loaned it to me to be used for your purposes.