We live in a society where two of the world’s hottest commodities are money and love. These same two commodities are the leading cause for divorce, the fall of many leaders, and the leading cause for plastic or cosmetic surgery, among many other things. We believe that often times if we just had more money it would solve every problem. Though it will make paying bills and retiring a lot easier, it still will never fulfill the void of wanting nor desiring to be loved by those closest to you, neither will it fulfill the love that you are to have for yourself.

When Money Isn’t Enough
Often times we spend most of our time trying to make more and more money, all of while in return we lose sight of what is most important, LOVE. We buy our children more gifts to show them that we love them. Women are now requesting that they receive a certain kind of diamond in order to prove your love for a man. Do you believe that it is better to have a lot of money and to be bankrupt in your heart? We search for love in malls, in people, in cars, in houses, in clothing only to realize that it only lasted for just a moment.

Money is not to be used as a temporary fix for a matter of the heart. The Bible clearly states, “that if you don’t have love you don’t have anything at all, for God is love.” We are hearing over and over again how people who have money are committing suicide because of depression, loneliness, and isolation. With all of the money that they have it just magnified their need to be loved and accepted. Toni Braxton, wrote in one of her songs, “that love should have brought not bought you home last night.”

Lovers of Pleasure rather than Lovers of God
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of good, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. 
2 Timothy 3:1-3

The message of prosperity is ringing throughout the nation, from the White House to the church house. I am not against prosperity in anyway, what I am against is having money without having love. There is someone right now who lives in a mansion but is being abused, there is a couple right now who has money but is miserable together. We would rather have the image, and the appearance of money but in reality there isn’t any joy, peace, or happiness.

Many of us believe that we can buy our way into heaven, when we must understand that God cannot be bought for any price. Look at it this way, you cannot buy your way back into someone’s heart, and neither can you purchase a ticket into heaven. God desires for us to prosper in every area of our lives, but He tells us that we are to first seek Him and all these things shall be added unto Him and that we are to serve God and not money. His love is free.

-- Article courtesy of Sonya Walker

Sonya Walker is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, motivator, and a woman full of purpose. She is a native of Dallas, Texas where she is the owner and founder of Essance Salon, Essance Image Consulting Agency, and The Essence of A Woman Ministry, of which is to beautify people from the inside out.

For more information please visit www.essanceimages.com

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