6:8
So if someone tells us to seek after more and more goods we should remember this verse. “If we have food and clothing we will be content with that”. If we have the material necessities today we should be content. The truth is that most of us in the West have so much more than this, so we should be even more content and grateful. We should thank God for what we have.
6:9,10
If the desire to get rich is the motivating force in our lives then it has a peculiar effect on our minds and judgement. We are then easily prone to temptation and can do the most stupid things. This can ultimately lead to “ruin and destruction”. “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil”. This is an oft misquoted saying, but even in its misquoted form (“the love money is the root of all evil”) the gist of the saying is still valid. “Sex, money and power” are the unholy trinity of desires that are responsible for most of our failings. When we allow these things to dominate we will bring much grief upon ourselves, and do much harm to others in the process as well. Every so-called prosperity teacher should read these two verses and turn their brains on! And if we find a church or a preacher whose focus is on money, then we should steer well clear. By the way, this most emphatically does not mean the church should never teach on money, it most certainly should. People need educating about money, but the teaching should all be truly Biblical. In fact, the church does not teach enough about money.
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