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Rector's Blog
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Getting It
At some point, you get it. Perhaps you open your accounts online, and there it is. You call the bank and learn the total. It comes in the mail. It's handed to you as you leave the office. Or it's placed on your desk. In times of work in some capacity it comes. At some point, you get your money.
And then what do you do? These days, how do you translate your money into what you have? What do you get with your money?
Here's a bottom-line truth about Jesus: in the gospels he never tells people what to do with their money. The gospel writers do not record Jesus saying anywhere: "everyone, tithe!" Instead, Jesus teaches people what to do with their love of money. He challenges them to love something more valuable. It's outlandish, but Jesus actually tells one man to give all his money away and then to come and follow him—why? Because here is a secret about us: you and I are worth a lot more than as suckers for loving our money. Instead, we can put over our love of money our love for God.
You, too, can give everything you have away. Why not? It's your money! Here's how: you can practice your faith by letting your money follow your love for God. The biblical standard of tithing to God puts our love of money out by the curb. And tithing, many people here can affirm, teaches you that your money—the other 90%—is both yours to have as well as God's for you to steward. It's yours, and it's not only yours. You effectively give it all away by putting your love for God first. That is, with God's help, you can really get it.
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