My 2 year old is at the stage where he “reads” everything.  I love just sitting there and listening to the stories he makes up from the books he “reads” to me.  The other day Amber and I were in our room getting things put away and situated from our recent move and I stuck my head around the corner to check up on him.  He as sitting at the kitchen table, Amber’s computer open, and was sifting through our pile of mail.  He picked up one of the credit card statements and was studying all the numbers.   In response to my question of what he was doing, he replied, “Reading stories.”  Knowing that he was holding our statement I asked, almost sarcastically, “What’s that one about?”

He answered with, “It’s about Jesus.”

After a quick chuckle with Amber, and letting it resonate a bit I turned to Amber and thought out loud, “I hope our bank statements tell a story about Jesus.”

Now this isn’t a money blog, it’s a priority blog.  I’m asking you to take a look at where you are spending your resources.

Matthew 6:24 says, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other.  You cannot serve both God and Money.”

Satan knows that God has created you for an amazing purpose (Jer. 29:11) and he will do anything he can to keep you from accomplishing that goal.  When God created you He gave you talents, abilities, and resources.  When those talents, abilities, and resources are used for the His purpose amazing things happen for the Kingdom of God, but be sure that Satan will do anything he can to distract, dilute, and displace those resources!

This is why Paul sends warning in his first letter to Timothy:

“People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.  For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.  Some people eager for money have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”  (1Tim. 6:9-10)

Every time I think of this topic I am reminded of a video created by LifeChurch.tv and their pastor, Craig Groeschel.  Check out his interview with Satan…