Written by
Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Money puts food
on the table. Goodwill does not. Money pays the rent and utility bills.
Goodwill does not. Money gives a good education. Goodwill does not. Therefore,
work for money and not goodwill. Making money is not a sin. Abraham made money.
Isaac made money. Jacob made money. Joseph made money. Nehemiah made money.
Jesus
demonstrated the significance of making money and money management in the
parables of the talents and the prodigal son. The Bible in both the old and new
testaments supports money making and celebrates wealthy men and women such as
Abraham, Isaac, Boaz, Job, Joseph of Arimathea, King Solomon, the virtuous
woman described in Proverbs Chapter 31, King David and many others. God is not against money making. What the
Bible condemns is the love of money, greed and mammon worship, fraudulent means
of making money like lying, cheating, duping other people of their hard earned
money, bribery and robbery.
The virtuous woman described in Proverbs
Chapter 31 made so much money from the work of her hands that she was able to
buy land even in her days when there was so much gender discrimination. Even
the skilled artisans mentioned in the Bible who received creative abilities in
designing from God and who worked in the designing of the tabernacle in Exodus
Chapter 36 and in the temple in 1st Kings were handsomely
remunerated.


