Money

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things (Ecclesiastes 10:19).  With is the same preacher who tells us in Ecclesiastes5:10,.....He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.....When looking at the two passages above, it's clear money is a far more complex thing than a simple means of exchange or a method of purchasing goods and services.  Everything has its place in divine order. God is money, and God is love; therefore, money is love.  In the earthly realm, money is a symbol, a metaphor for the divine, the creator. Like the Creator, it has the power to create and do. So how did money get so perverted?  A possible explanation is that it gets out of sync when it is not loved in divine order. In other words if money isn't appreciated for both its power and its limitations, it will be misused, mistreated, and misunderstood, and we will find ourselves handling it in a way that was never intended. Because money is God is love, it should be used only for that which pleases God. Money itself doesn't pervert; we pervert money.l