Using your children as an excuse for selfishness

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. Dorothy Parker

Actually, people with money can't all be like Abraham, but I don't think that she is talking about attitude or personality, but generosity. This lack of generosity eventually turns into violent destruction towards others and insipid self-serving behaviors.

To be as generous as Abraham, or Job, or any of the many wealthy biblical heroes, we have to realize that money is not for us to hoard, but to do our job, which is to be a source of relief and comfort in the world. We are given resources as stewards, as middlemen in the processing of money.

"But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from
you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' Luke 12.20

Perhaps this is one of the talents that God gives to people which is supposed to be a means of transforming the lives of others.

It is a deception of Satan to preach that it is necessary for us to be selfish for the sake of our children. If we are supposed trust God to take care of us, how much more are we to trust him to take care of our children, who do not belong to us, but to him. This is a popular lie to justify destructive and essentially evil behaviors. God gives us grace and provides for us, but we are never relieved from our duty to provide for the less fortunate. If Christ while He was on earth would share His own meal with those who needed food, how much more are we even when we are poor under obligation to give.

The widow of Zarephath was commanded by God through Elijah to take the very last of her food before she and her child starved to death and give it to the prophet of God, so that she could be provided for by God.

There is no one who calls himself Christian who can allow himself to excuse this Satanic spirit on the basis of necessity.

I King 17.13 Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have
said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring
it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. 14 For this is what
the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the
jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.'
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