What’s Our Attitude Toward Money?

What’s Our Attitude toward Money?

Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness! The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what good is wealth—except perhaps to watch it slip through your fingers!

Ecclesiastes 5:10-11

SOMETIMES IT SEEMS as if the more we have, the more we argue about what we have. The poorest couple in America has abundance compared to masses of the world’s population. I am convinced that the problem does not lie in the amount of money that a couple possesses, but in their attitude toward money and the way they handle it.

I think a lot of us have a mental “magic sum” that seems to be the benchmark of what would make us happy. We get there and then realize, No, that’s not quite enough. In Ecclesiastes 5, King Solomon—who was himself one of the wealthiest kings on record—writes bluntly about the never-ending search for “enough” money. If we think a certain amount of money will bring happiness, we’re doomed to disappointment.

Author Jeannette Clift George has said, “The great tragedy in life is not in failing to get what you go after. The great tragedy in life is in getting it and finding out it wasn’t worth the trouble!”

When our life focuses on “getting more money,” we have the wrong focus. Our marital relationship and our relationship with God are far more important than how much money we have. Getting our priorities straight is the first step in making money an asset to marriage rather than a liability.

Lord, you know how easy it is for me to think everything would be better if I had just a little more money. Thanks for the reminder that if that’s the way I think, I’ll never be satisfied. I pray for better priorities and a stronger sense of contentment.

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