“God can have our money and not have our hearts, but he cannot have our hearts without having our money.”
R. Kent Hughes, former pastor of College Church in Wheaton, IL, as recounted by Ron Blue in Master Your Money (Chicago: Moody, 2004) 19.
We demonstrate that God has our hearts by deploying His money to the things He cares about rather than stockpiling it for ourselves. This also demonstrates our trust is in Him rather than ourselves to secure our future. Does God have our hearts?
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21