The love of money is worthless. Money wealth and belongings won’t satisfy you because the more you have, the more you consume and even though wealth may look good it won’t help you sleep at night.
Look at Ecclesiastes 5:10 – 12
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes. Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.
I value my sleep. Sometimes I lose sleep because I worry about money. And it’s not just the lack of money that causes me to lose sleep. It’s also the abundance of money and how best to steward it that causes me to lose sleep.
In these moments my love for the Lord gets tested and I remember how worthless and vain and unsatisfying it is to love money. It’s like chasing the wind. Now I’ve never chased the wind because it seems pretty worthless. And this is the theme of the book of Ecclesiastes.
It’s worthless to chase the wind. You can’t control the wind or bottle it up in a container. And if I made it my life’s goal to chase the wind I would leave behind a really worthless legacy. It’s the same with loving money because money and wealth will not satisfy the deep longings of my soul.
Everything money can buy is a limited consumable commodity that leaves you wanting more of what you cannot afford to buy more of. Even the wealthiest of people, and Solomon the wealthiest man alive at the time who wrote Ecclesiastes, knew that money can’t buy enough things to satisfy the deep longings of my soul.
Money can’t buy love. It can’t buy eternal joy or eternal security or eternal peace. Only Christ can give me eternal love, joy, security and peace. And the best news is that what Christ offers me costs me nothing. The price for eternal love, joy, security and peace were paid in full by Christ at the cross of Calvary.
Now I can be set free from my love of money and I can sleep well at night!