Do
you know that the statement “money is the answer for everything” is found in
the Bible?
“A
feast is made for laughter, wine makes life merry, and money is the answer for
everything” (Ecclesiastes 10:19).
It
is true in our earthly existence money plays such a major role. We cannot do
much without it, whether it is for food, shelter, clothing, education,
transport, utilities or buying stuff like a car, TV or handphone.
Furthermore,
“The wealth of the rich is their fortress; the poverty of the poor is their
destruction” (Proverbs 10:15).
These
two verses tell us the important role money plays on earth and its ability to provide
us security the same way a fortress would. Or so it seems …
Yet
money is not the answer for everything:
Money
can buy us a bed but not restful sleep.
Money
can buy us a house but not a peaceful, harmonious home.
Money
can buy us sexual services but not love.
Money
can buy us a luxury watch but cannot determine the duration of our time on
earth.
Money
can buy us fawning adoration but not genuine loyalty and respect.
Money
can buy us freedom from prison (bail us out) but not redeem our soul from hell.
Money
can buy us a gold-studded coffin but not a place in heaven.
In
fact, wealth is useless in the afterlife. It is only relevant in the ‘here and
now’. On judgment day, all our riches are utterly useless if we have only used it
to please ourselves and have not lived a righteous life.
“Wealth
is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death” (Proverbs
11:4).
CASH
IS KING?
Four
reasons why cash is not necessarily king