Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 620 of our trek, and it’s time for a 3-minute mini-trek called Wisdom Unplugged. This short nugget of wisdom includes an inspirational quote with a little additional content for today’s trek. Consider this your vitamin supplement of wisdom for today. So let’s jump right in with today’s nugget.
Today’s quote is from Fred Smith who said, “The wise man gets money without money getting them.”
Money, wealth, riches, resources, stuff…these words are all essentially the same thing. Nations have gone to war. Humans have killed, injured and maligned others to either obtain it or keep it. It drives people to forsake all to gain so little.
There is certainly nothing wrong with obtaining any amount of money as long as it is obtained honestly, with integrity, and hard work because it is needed to live in today’s world. The question remains when you pursue money, “Does that pursuit result in you becoming a slave to the money that you are pursuing?” It is a fact that most people in the world could get by with much less money, and the things that it can buy. You cannot effectively control money if it is controlling and driving you.
The primary purpose for our pursuit and obtaining of money or wealth of any kind is to be able to help others that are in need. We need our resources to flow through us like water in a river, not to accumulate it as if we were a reservoir.
As a Christ follower, if your focus is in the obtaining and accumulation of wealth, you will not have the focus to serve and worship God. Jesus taught this in Matthew 6:24, “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.”
