Can you imagine being Adam or Eve before the Fall? What would it be like to approach God and the world as a whole person? As a person free from Lust, Greed and Pride? What would it be like to use the world and all it contains exactly the way we should?
You would have no fear, and so you wouldn't anxiously hoard possessions to protect yourself. Your soul wouldn't be a vacuous empty space because God would fill it, and so you wouldn't try to use possessions to fulfill yourself.
Your purpose would be clear, and you wouldn't shrink from difficult issues, and so you would never use money-making as a distraction and an escape. Adam wasn't required to toil for his bread so you wouldn't overwork.
In a word, you would never bow down and worship wealth as a substitute god, the way we have in the past, or perhaps still do in the present.
Well we aren't Adam and Eve. We live post-fall, and that means greed, anxiety, fear and insecurity are our constant companions. Therefore, the use of possessions and wealth is a constant problem for us.
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Dave is married to Melody and has three children. He became a Christian in 2003 and has ministered in various churches since that time. He is a graduate of Faith International University and Sangre de Cristo Seminary.
