Topic: Attitude Towards Wealth
Text: Ecclesiastes 2:24-26

Money is a good servant but a bad master. Although wealth can transform your life, it also has the potential for destroying it. God expects you to manifest proper attitude towards money. He wants you to master how you can control wealth before it comes. God does not want to worship money. “For riches are not forever, and doth the crown endure to every generation?” (Proverbs 27:24). Do not build your castle in this world. Make sure you put your mind on eternal things. Why do you want to be rich? Is it to show off? Is it so to tell people that you have arrived? If your hope is based on this world, then you must be a miserable fellow, indeed. This word will soon pass away. The Bible says: “Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.” (Proverbs 23:5). Money has a way of disappearing. Why should you put your trust in something that can fly tomorrow? Money can fail you at the time you need it the most. Proverbs 11:28: “He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.” If you trust in riches, one day, you will fall. Proverbs 11:4: “Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness’ delivereth from death.” If God is angry with you, all the money in the world cannot appease Him. God would not take any bribe. It is the blood of Jesus that cleanses from all sins. If you are poor, God will surprise you. You are not going to die as a poor man. Ecclesiastes 2:26 says: “For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit. All the sinners working very hard gathering money are doing so for you. If only you will please the Almighty, your wealth is on the way. However, you have to know in advance that money can be dangerous. If you are not fully prepared, wealth can easily take you to help. If you have Christ before you wealth comes, there will be no problem. The Lord will grant you the grace to handle it positively.

Memory Verse: Proverbs 23:5 - “Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven”