“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew 6:22-23
“What happens to your money, happens to you. Your money is an extended or contracted you. If you pile up money with no purpose behind it, you clutter up yourself, and it becomes a purposeless self, hence and unhappy self.”
Selwyn Hughes in Divine Mathematics: A Biblical Perspective on Investing in God’s Kingdom (Surrey, UK: CWR, 2004) 60.
After Jesus tells us not to store up treasure on earth, he tells us to store it up in heaven. Then He makes this statement about the eye or our focus.
If our eye or focus is wrong, everything will be wrong, unhealthy, and full of darkness. Hughes would say that we would render ourselves purposeless.
What happens to your money, happens to you. Put it in play toward things that match the purposes of God instead of letting it sit purposeless.
Don’t focus on what you think you need for the next 30 years. Focus on what decisions you will be happy you made 30 million years from now.
Use your money purposefully to live purposefully.