The Lord does not measure you by the abundance of things or material riches you possess. He does not love a person more who has obtained more money or material things. However, He does require you to be good stewards over what He has given you. This requires that you use your God-given talent and perform a trade working for yourself or someone else (attorney, garbage collector, accountant, etc.).
Do not bury your talents and gifting in the ground or think you are someone because your net worth exceeds a certain dollar amount enabling you to shower yourself with opulence. Rather cultivate your gifts and leverage your financial net worth to help you be a blessing to other people.
Recognize that financial net worth has limited importance and it is only a great thing when it is leveraged to help spread the gospel throughout the earth and disciple people in Christ’s way. The scriptures identify godly men and women who accumulated great fortunes and ungodly men and women who accumulated great fortunes. God is not displeased at everyone who is rich or has increased net worth. He is displeased only when your accumulation has been obtained using wicked means to gain an end and/or when you are not rich in giving to support the work of Christ.
Since He allows different portions to be provided to different people, He is not looking for everyone to wind up with the same net worth rather He is looking for each of us to utilize biblical money management principles to order our financial steps throughout life. When we do this, we will bear much fruit, give abundantly, and grow our net-worth (accumulate assets) in a way that pleases the Father.
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Genesis 13:5-6, Job 1:1-3, 42:10-12, Acts 4:34-37, James 5:1-6
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