This is what happens when I try to wax epic. Ready, attack!
Money is a thing. Before we can understand how we need to view this thing or any “things”, we need to understand how we should view our world in general. We rent this universe from a God who created it and us within it for His own good pleasure. It is given to our care, but it is not our own. By extension, we ourselves are not our own; we exist solely because God willed that we exist. Apart from Him, we are nothing, we have nothing, and we live for no reason. Given that the universe is God’s and we ourselves are God’s, it should be a small task to lump money in the Lord’s jurisdiction as well. Like the rest of the universe around us, it is given to us for safekeeping, not for self-glorification.
The problem develops because we live in a world which many times values money more than God. Fathers forsake their children, husbands their wifes, and Christians their God for the relentless pursuit of something which gives them an objective, quantifiable sense of self-worth. In forgetting who and what is in charge of our lives, we are left attempting to justify our existence to a world who see nothing of us beyond the numbers attached to our bank accounts. In the end, money becomes our master, and once the shadow of this world passes from our view, we will be left naked and cold, taking nothing more with us to death than we were given in birth.
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Even if money doesn’t become our master, we leave with nothing more than we came with. Some of us hope to leave some kind of legacy of decency, and others of us hope that our accrued wealth or power will be interpreted as evidence of our decency.
It’s a tremendous annoyance to have to keep trying to do the right thing. It doesn’t often come with immediate reward, whereas a dollar is a dollar is a dollar, no matter how righteous or corrupt its source.