Fro Those Who Love Money ~ The Way to the Father is Narrow

For those who love money, the way to the Father is narrow. "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God" ~ Matthew 19:24.
"...the one who received one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground, and buried his master's money" ~ Matthew 25:18. 

Many people interpret the first above scripture as being about greed and the second being about how man can waste what he has, his talents, time, and even money by not investing it, by not doing something with it to make more money. Both are to tell us that the love of money is wrong. Because, the love of money finds one lusting after it and hoarding it. Money is the root of all evil  ~ 1 Timothy 6:10 as we can also recognize that money enslaves; people end up wasting their life by not only not sharing their prosperity but also by not sharing of themselves.

Many people have to hang on to what they have as if it is all the money/clothes/furniture/property and or gold in the world. They live like paupers or in the least as if they have only meager means. They welcome and accept gifts from other people whose sympathy they play on. When it be made known that they actually have wealth and are asked to give or share, they say it would cost too much as their money is in tied up in certain places and or investment accounts. 

Charles Dickens wrote a play called the "Christmas Carole". It was about a man who had exactly the kind of problem mentioned above. He loved money so much, he could not part with it, he lived as though he had none, he lived a dark and lonely life until he met with the Spirit that is Jesus Christ. 

We look around and wonder why some have and some don't. Most of the haves just won't part with what they have. "When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath" ~ Joshua 7:21.

As we read in Joshua, there were men of old that also figured what they fought for or found was rightly theirs. Men of today say the same things. "I worked hard for it, I saved, they made the right decisions, I was thrifty, I was without, I spent only what was necessary or what I deemed necessary. 

People do hoard even today and not just 'wealth' as in money but other things as well: property, investments, goods/services and even ideas, etc. What if they shared, what if they gave, what if they lived to help who was someone down and out, someone who was not so wise, someone who made bad decisions, someone who could not come up with great ideas? What then? Is this about socialism? In a way it is. The kind that should exist between people at the grass roots and not top down mandate by some government. It should be our choice to use our money wisely for the good of others which is for our own good. 

"But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs" 1 Timothy 9-10.