True Wealth

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” Matthew 6:24

During the last four weeks, we’ve considered what it means to allow the Holy Spirit to change our hearts about wealth. We’ve seen what it means to shift from a dark heart to a heart that is shaped by the cross. A dark heart is marked by pride, covetousness, anxiety and indifference. A heart transformed by the cross is marked by gratitude, contentment, trust and generosity. As we’ve seen, these characteristics are opposites of each other. A cross-shaped heart changes pride to gratitude, covetousness to contentment, anxiety to trust and indifference to generosity. No matter where we are on the journey from a dark heart to a transformed heart, Jesus meets us there and invites us to become more like him.

During this time, Pastor Jeff encouraged us to pursue specific habits. The Holy Spirit can use these habits to transform our hearts. These habits include a daily gratitude journal listing three things a day, mealtime prayer and regular generous giving. As these habits are done faithfully over an extended period of years, God moves our hearts from darkness to those shaped by the work of Jesus on the cross. These are habits worth beginning and continuing.

TODAY: Thank God for this series and how your heart has been challenged to take important next steps. Consider rewatching a sermon that spoke to you, or catch up on any messages you missed. Find all of the TRUE WEALTH messages at https://www.adabible.org/series/true-wealth/.