148: Measuring Financial Success

Faith and Finances

If we were to sit down and, as a Registered Investment Advisor Representative, I were to measure your financial success or shortcomings, I would compare your assets versus your liabilities. If your assets exceeded your liabilities, we may agree that you are doing well.

If we are not careful our pursuits of financial success could easily turn our hearts inward—toward self, and away from God.

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There is a difference between being wise and honoring God.

It may seem wise to put years of effort into getting out of debt and building up your savings but, if in the process you have neglected giving cheerfully, sacrificially, and regularly, as worship unto God, how can we say that that is God-honoring?

God-honoring success does not look like the success the world recognizes.

Was the Apostle Paul successful? Absolutely. Yet he wrote that he was instructed both to abound and to suffer need.

The Christ-honoring life involves seasons of failures, times of suffering need, and experiencing setbacks. These do not make us failures. It is our response to the times which determine success or failure, in God's eyes.

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Improve Your Faith and Finances:

In your seeking to improve your finances, commit your ways unto the Lord, and do not wait until you have reached your own financial goals before giving to the Lord. We all have today to live for and honor the Lord.

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