Can You Love Making Money Without Loving It?

Apostle Paul, also warned that craving for greater riches that can lead to an endless cycle that only ends in ruin and destruction. Back to my question, how can you love making money and not love the money itself?

By Tosin 'Badeniyi, PhD
- August 7, 2020

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Like many people, I like investing and making money. But as a Christian how can you ensure you don’t become enslaved by the desire for wealth? How can you prevent the desire for money from filling your life? Because if that happens, you are on a dangerous ground. Our Lord once explained how the lure of wealth and desire for other things can make someone unfruitful.

Let me share with you seven helpful tips I have adapted from my study Bible:

Realize that one day riches will all be gone
Be content with what you have
Monitor what you are willing to do to get more money
Love people more than money
Love God’s work more than money
Freely share what you have with others
Don’t get involved with burdensome mortgages; budgets, investments, or debts that that can affect your relationship and service to God rather keep your earthly responsibilities or business modest and manageable.

“How could you worship two gods at the same time? You will have to hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t worship the true God while enslaved to the god of money.” Matthew 6:24 (TPT)

Tosin 'Badeniyi, PhD

Tosin ‘Badeniyi, a Professor at the Department of Biotechnology and Food Science at Durban University of Technology, South Africa, holds a doctoral degree in Food Science from University of Pretoria South Africa. Since 2001, he has conducted research and lectured internationally in the area of food quality and safety. He is the editor of Food Science and Technology: Trends and Future Prospects and has published numerous scientific publications as well as four inspirational books.