Sat.’s Devo - The Love of Money

Read: Joshua 7:16-9:2; Luke 16:1-18; Psalm 82:1-8; Provers 13:2-3
Be sure your sins will find you out. Achan found out the hard way. He coveted a robe, some gold and silver of the spoil of Jericho and it cost him his life and the lives of his family. His sin caused 36 men to die needlessly. Once Joshua dealt with the sin in the camp, they could take the city and hang the king. Remember that these cities are spiritual strongholds that have to come down. They stand for the “giants in the land of our soul”. The king stands for the principality.
In Luke, Jesus dealt with the love of money also. He told a parable about an unrighteous money manager who was about to be fired by his boss. The manager realized he had a few more days in his job so he quickly went out and cut in half the debts of those who owed his boss money. He hoped that when he got fired, these people would be kind to him; he was buying their favor. The boss found out about it and commended him for his shrewdness.
The boss stood for God and the man was the Pharisees. They had used God’s money and their position for their own gain. They needed to wake up and see that their time was running out and they needed to do something to redeem themselves like this man did. It still seems wrong to cut the debt in half but for once his selfishness was helping the poor and helpless.
Jesus explained that worldly wealth is for us to help others on earth because when you leave you can’t take it with you. If God can trust us to handle money on earth then he can trust us with the true riches of his Word.
Jesus added that a man who puts his wife away and doesn’t divorce her legally makes her and him commit adultery if they want to remarry. This is a strange thing to say here but what he was referring to was the new covenant he was bringing. They were married to the law through Moses. They had to divorce that old covenant to receive a new one or they would be committing spiritual adultery. Romans 7 explains this in detail.
Lord, help us to be trustworthy in all we do naturally and spiritually. Thank you for the new covenant of grace and power.