The Love of Money - Root of All Evil?

I'm sure even if you are Bible scholar or not, you may have heard something like "Money is the root of all evil". In actuality that is not correct. Correctly it's worded, the love of money is the root of all evil. Let's think about that phrase for just one moment. What if you love something or somebody you have an emotional attachment to it. The funny thing is we can get emotionally attached to things that will neither receive our emotions nor will they love us in return. I remember I had someone who worked for me once that was assigned to manage a particular product for our company. Now the product had problems that were not the fault of the person who this was assigned to but every time a complaint came in about the product this person became very defensive.

 

After talking to this person that came to my attention that this person had become emotionally involved with the product. They had done everything that they could make this product work properly and it still did not work properly. Every complaint or attack on the product became a personal complaint or attack to the person. In other words they were emotionally involved. Once I explained to the person that the product would not love them back and any complains were not a personal attack towards the person involved, this person could see things in a different light. They were then able to handle complaints in a proper manner without feeling personally attacked. But how does this relate to money?

 

What do you know to not every decision that you make will involved money. Will you buy a new car? Can I afford it, will probably be in that conversation before you purchase the car. Do you feel pain when you have to make a payment on something? If you feel emotionally involved at any level when you have to deal with money then you need to reevaluate whether or not you are not emotionally attached to money. Have you ever noticed that a lot of people make very poor decisions to save money. Also a lot of people make very poor decisions to the money into their pockets. These are all signs of that saying, the love of money is the root of all evil.

So here's my challenge to you. Find out how emotionally attached to money you are and start doing things to become less emotionally attached. Remember that money is like an elusive girlfriend this seems to flee when you want her the most and returns when you show little attention to her. Be responsible with your money but don't be a slave to money. One way to tell money that you are the boss is to start giving more to your favorite charities. In the beginning you feel the pain of giving away your hard-earned money as soon you'll discover that it's not so bad.

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