The dollar is down. Gold is up. Oil is up. The stock market is seesawing. Real estate seems iffy as well. Interest rates for savings accounts are very poor.

Money is so hard to come by. I can’t afford to lose it or abuse it or misuse it. How shall I use it wisely? Where shall I invest it? Where can it be secure? How can it do me the most good?

Money is so hard to rule over. If we’re not careful and cautious, it will rule us. And drive us. And use us. And consume us. And ruin us.

What shall we do with it?

“And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations” (9).

This verse, along with others, tells me I should use earthly wealth to lay up treasures in heaven, to invest in heaven.

How?

By using my money to bless people now. By using my resources to help God’s kingdom and mission here on Earth.

I purpose again to do that.

from Luke 16:2

A little bit more from Luke 16: With Little or With Much