Money Money Money....

"But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - Matthew 6:20-21

Someone once said the most sensitive nerve in the human body is the one that leads to the pocketbook. 

In 1923, a very important meeting was held in Chicago, Illinois. Attending the meeting were nine of the world's most successful financiers. It was a high-powered group of people - men who knew the secret of making money. There was no doubt where their altar was.

Let's take a look at where they were 25 years later, in 1948. 

The president of the largest independent steel company, Charles Schwab, died bankrupt after living on borrowed money for five years previous. The president of the greatest utility company, Samuel Insull, died a fugitive from justice, penniless in a foreign land. The president of the largest gas company, Howard Hopson, was insane. The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cuttor, died abroad, insolvent. The president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, had just been released from Sing Sing. A member of the President's cabinet, Albert Fall, was pardoned from prison so he could die at home.

All of these men knew how to make money, but not one of them learned how to live. 

If money is one of your altars, ask God to make you aware of how you can change.

Prayer:

Lord, you are my altar. Therefore, I have peace. 

From the late Dr. Robert Schuller