Trusting God with my Finances
While the world is rapidly changing, we are left with so many questions. What will the future hold? Will we be able to afford to pay our bills? Can we make rent next month? Will our job still be here tomorrow? These times we are living in are very uncertain and they can bring with them a lot of anxious feelings. Today I wanted to remind you that we do not need to fear the future. Our God is bigger and He has a plan even when we cannot see it.
Trusting God with our financial future
What is the most important thing to remember when your future feels out of control? Remember who holds your future and that is God. Nothing we can ever do to plan for the future is ever guaranteed. We can save money, invest money, and store food, but these things can all be gone with one simple disaster. I believe the only way we can have hope for our future is to completely trust God. Fear should not consume our minds as Christians’ we should be consistently praying and seeking God’s guidance daily with our needs then trusting Him to meet those needs.
Until last year Saving Joyfully has been designed to guide you with self-help ideas and my opinions. My goal has always been to help others transform their finances along my journey.
While my intentions were not bad and I had hoped to help others with something that I always struggled with myself I never realized something important. Only God can truly help us transform our financial life. Sure we can give advice and guidance to others but a true transformation in the area of finance comes from completely surrendering your financial life and trusting God.
The last few years have led me along a path of surrender and transformation that has opened my eyes to my flawed thinking and practices. Until this transformation began I was convinced that Saving Joyfully was chronicling my hope for a better financial future and helping others through my experiences. I was wrong Saving Joyfully may have helped you and even me to better understand the overall picture of our financial life and begin the transformation but it was missing something. What was missing? The best financial advice! The biblical truths of God’s word on money and its place in our lives. It was missing the repentance for trying to do it on our own, the surrender of my financial life to the Lord, and the faith in God to transform my finances. It was missing the power of God which can ultimately bring about this transformation and the only true way to experience financial freedom.
What I’ve learned so far on my transformation journey
Since beginning to understand these key missing elements God has begun a deep work within my heart and life. He has started refining me in ways that I never even realized were needed. It has been painful and eye-opening but it was exactly what I needed to rescue me from the love of Money & a life focused on money. Below are just a few bible passages that God has
What does the bible say about money?
1 Timothy 6:10 - For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
Matthew 6:19-21 - “Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.
Matthew 6:24 - “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money. 25 - “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? 26 - Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? 27 - Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? 28 - “And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, 29 - yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. 30 - And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith? 31 - “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ 32 - These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. 33 -Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. 34 - “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
While money is not evil & having money is not evil a life focused on money, and storing up money here on earth is not the right mindset. When we focus on money that much we risk money becoming our master as the Bible talks about.
Money begins to consume and direct our lives until we no longer look to God and trust Him with our finances. We begin to worry, turn away from trusting God, and seek financial prosperity and financial freedom over the desires we should have as believers. Money then becomes our master when we place our trust in money we make it more important than God in our lives.
Give God all of you and surrender your financial life to Him and He will take care of all of your needs. You may never be rich or have everything your heart desires but you will always have enough. Trust Him and walk by faith in His many promises.
