Faith Minute® is a one minute program heard on dozens of stations across the country. Each weekday your host, Leith Anderson, shares an inspiring and practical message of hope, encouragement and challenge showing why 'living by faith' can be the most stretching, fulfilling and rewarding experience you will ever have.
October 14, 2011
Who do you think is more prone to trust God, a rich man or a poor man? I think it’s fair to say that when we have money in our wallets we don’t particularly trust God for our “daily bread.” When we live in comfortable homes we’re not likely to pray for a place to sleep. Only if that comfortable home is lost, do we then in adversity turn to God and depend upon him. When we have comprehensive health insurance we don’t worry about paying our medical bills. It’s when we lose that insurance that we turn to God. Prosperity tends to make us trust in ourselves.
Does that mean that money is bad? No, but building our lives around the pursuit of riches is a risky thing to do if we hope to be close to God; for it is what we don’t have that tends to draw us closest to God.
