Something Money Can’t Buy

Over a doorway in an old Dutch banking house is the following inscription:

The Golden Age is the Age in which money does not rule!

A man went to a fortune teller hoping that she would be able to look into her crystal ball and make some stock market predictions. “My fee,” said the fortune teller, “is one hundred dollars. For that amount you may ask two questions.” The client winced and said, “My, isn’t that a lot of money for just two questions?” “Yes,” the fortune teller replied. “Now what is your second question?”

One of the surest ways most everyone will know whether or not we are Jesus’ disciples is our attitude toward money. The character of a society will in large measure be determined by the place assigned to money in its hierarchy of values. And the same is true of each individual. In large measure, our individual character will be measured by how money fits into our value…