Me:  Prodigal, are you painting?

Prodigal:  Yep, and I am really enjoying it!

Me:  You should paint everyday!

Prodigal:  If only I could afford too, I would.

Me:  Even being able to paint every once in a while is nice

 

John Piper talks about money and our hearts.

 

Serving money means looking to money to provide you a service and to provide your help  and meet your needs.  Serving money means planning and dreaming and strategizing and maneuvering to be in a position to maximize our wealth and what money can provide for us.  Money is the giver and the benefactor in the servant-master relationship…You look to money to do good for you…So what Jesus is saying is that we should serve God…We look to God to be our helper, our benefactor and treasure.  To serve Him would be to plan and dream and strategize and maneuver to be in a position to maximize our enjoyment of God and what He alone promises to be for us.  God then, not money becomes the giver and the benefactor in this servant-master relationship.

 

Whether you have money or no money, your joy comes from the Lord.

 

Daniel 2:20

Daniel answered and said:  “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.