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Financial bondage can also exist through an abundance of money. Some Christians have been supplied a surplus of money and have misused or begun to hoard it. Those who use their money totally for self-satisfaction or hoard it away for that elusive “rainy day” are just as financially bound in God’s eyes as those in debt.
The accumulation of wealth and material pleasures of life can be an obsession that will destroy a Christian’s health, destroy his family, separate him from friends and block God’s will in his life. Everything and everybody can become objects to be used on the ladder to success. Those shackled by these wrong attitudes are always striving for the goal on money. Job 31:24-28 says: “If I have put my confidence in gold, and called fine gold my trust, if I have gloated because my wealth was great, and because my hand had secured so much; if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon going in splendor, and my heart became secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth, that too would have been an iniquity calling for judgment, for I would have denied God above.”
As discussed earlier, it is important for Christians to understand this truth. Many Christians have taken the very resource that God provided for their peace and comfort and transformed it into something full of pain and sorrow. There is nothing inherently evil in money itself, only in the preoccupation with and the misuse of it.
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