THE TRAGEDY OF TRADING MONEY FOR GOD!!??

The choice between God and money is simply a tragic thought that would only araise from a 'degenerated' mind that supports the notion that God would otherwise be comparable to anything. That said, the known truth is that when the love for money takes precedence over your life, you would perharps find yourself worshiping money; usually selfish and stingy tendencies corrupt your ability to reason out side the love for it.

When God however becomes the core of your life, money is looked at as a means to - bless, appreciate the essence of work and acknowledge its source - as King Solomon asserts to this in his later years in Ecclesiastes 3:13 that "I’ve decided that there’s nothing better to do than go ahead and have a good time and get the most we can out of life. That’s it—eat, drink, and make the most of your job. It’s God’s gift." In this case, the 2 are completely incomparable and never complementary - you either love God or money; yet in its totality, the need to propagate the exactness of how God not money needs the worship that it deserves.

God is Spirit while money is material; God cannot be exchanged for or by anything, money is exchangeable by all means; God is not bound while money is bound by time, value and availability; God is God and therefore let money be what it is - money. 

In the olden days of the hard hearted Israelites, God is perturbed by the blamished sacrifices and the attitude presented while offering these sacrifices; a story not different from Abel and his murderous brother Cain. One eyed, lame and diseased animals were sacrificed while the best were reserved. Numerous examples are given about such behaviours that never pleased God at all, as one would understand in the book of Malachi 3:10-15; the love for God had grown cold.

In a new twist of events, in a new economic setup where money holds the key to every exchangeable item, our sacrifices (tithes and offerings) would now be considered as monetary. Jesus who was later on confronted by a spiritually needy rich man whose love for Jesus seemed genuine but never put to test, opens a can of worms about this choice of tragedy. He confirms the genesis of this discussion as a man whose mind had degenerated. In Mark 10:21-22 the man's plea to receive eternal life is greeted by a question we all would want to think about. "Looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. “There is still one thing you haven’t done,” he told him. “Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." In Verse 22, we are told that "the man’s face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions." - He failed the LOVE TEST.

Was Jesus interested in his possessions? No, he loves us more than anything else; Was Jesus's love for him based on his possessions? No, with exception of our love, he does not need anything from us; Would selling of all his possessions earn him an automatic ticket to eternal life? No, it could not count at all. All he needed was to kill that man (the flesh) that lusted for money. 

Would i then assert that the love for money is the root cause of all evil or the greed for money is the path to eternal distruction?