matt123

You see its the Love of money, and that is the root of All kinds of evil! You see money is amoral. It has no morals. It is simply an object. Just like a brick is an object. You can take the brick and build something with it. You can take a brick and throw it through a window. The brick does not care, its not alive. It has no morals. You see what a person does with a brick is what is important not the brick itself. So no, having money or not having money does not mean you are a good or bad person. Dave Ramsey does say this, he noticed that having money only allows you to be more of who you already are. If you a mean evil person, you can do even more mean evil things with money. If your a good giving person, you will simply do more good and giving. Also, often times God does not bless us with money is because he knows we will hurt yourself with it. If you have 100 dollars and you do not use that wisely, and you hurt yourself, God will not give you 1000 dollars to cause even more hurt. He only gives you what your able to handle. Case in point, many lotto millionaires, lost it all and wind up far worse off then they were before the money. Are there pitfalls and dangers for a wealthy person, in the spiritual sense, Yes, but more on that later! Was interested in this post because of the word 'LEND' and the fact that you say it is not good. I was considering lending my son money to help with buying his first home - the reason being that I didn't want him throwing away money on interest payments - but also teaching him responsibility about money management - i.e. that he needs to set aside part of his salary and be responsible rather than having money 'drop out of the sky'. I'm not disagreeing with you at all but I just wondered if you think there is anything wrong with my approach in treating it as a loan rather than a gift - he will eventually inherit whatever I leave and I have no plans on spending any payments that he makes - rather I would invest them for him so that he eventually benefits from them - as I said not disagreeing - just wanted your opinion.Psalm 15, He that putteth not out his money to usury.If you give him a loan, hope fully hell pay it back.To many siblings end up going to court over money issues, their supposed to be Christian folks.My advice, if he cant pay it back, take the loss, lending money isn't a good a idea.Or just give it to him as a gift, wont have to worry if he cant pay you back.Credit cards, finacing fall into usury, that's were big problems start, saving cash is the best way, stay away from usury.

LUKE chapter2 or 3, john the Baptist used water to try to get people to repent, Baptist goes on to say one is coming who will baptize you with the holy ghost and with fire[truth].Faith in GOD and repenting are very important.