Money Matters: Devotions from Time of GraceSample

Making Money God’s Way: No Cheating Making money is a fine thing. Taking money is not. It is amazing how fertile the human brain can be in devising schemes to separate people from their money. Have you gotten e-mails from Africa claiming that you are a trustee of a fortune? Or gotten e-mails from a “bank” that just needs your checking account’s routing numbers to fix something? Someone’s definition of morality would be a principle that they use to conduct their activities and not the activity itself. If there is no one in the forest to hear the tree fall, did it really make a noise? If I never get caught, is it really wrong? P. T. Barnum remarked famously that a sucker was born every minute. Do you share Barnum’s sharp eye for taking advantage of people? Remember that Someone is watching how you acquire your money. Satan owns the short term, but only the Lord can give lasting satisfaction. “Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with a mouth full of gravel” (Proverbs 20:17).