“Human will love himself and become slave for money.”
Paul reminds Timothy of a phenomenon that will occur in the last days, that is, humans will love themselves, focus on themselves, not care about others, and become slaves to money. This means that now many people are enslaved by money.
They place money as everything in life. Waking up thinking about money, chasing money all day, planning how to get money tomorrow. There is an old Chinese saying: “Money is not everything, but without money one can do nothing.”
We have to admit that money has a very important role in human life, because there is not a single activity of human life under this sky, be it in daily life to activities that are spiritual in nature that do not require money. For example, to meet the most basic daily needs of life, we need a lot of money. Not to mention if we want a more decent life: quality schools, tutoring/courses, transportation, sports facilities; not a few costs that we have to spend. There is no exception to carry out calling tasks in ministry: God’s servants who work in His fields.
As long as money becomes a tool or a means of supporting life activities, it will not cause problems. But it becomes a problem if money has influenced the principles and lifestyle of each person. Money will cause polemic if we love money and are enslaved by it. “Do not be a servant of money because the root of all evil is the love of money. Because it is by chasing money that some people have deviated from the faith and tormented themselves with various sorrows.”
Money is important, but it will be very dangerous if we become slaves to money and love money.
𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐫 