Money Can't Buy Love

Money can't buy love
Garrett Godwin

What can money really buy? It can buy us clothes that can keep us warm for autumn and winter. Money can also be use for food when we go with our family, friends, spouses or by ourselves. Another is food that keeps us nourished everyday at home. Because of money, we need food that will help us get through the next several days for breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner and dessert when we're home.

Money can also buy things we like and want such as a DVD player, shoes that we can wear when we dress casual or for church services. Money can buy us a home or apartment, T.V., books, and supplies for school and work and the list goes on. It is good to have all of those things, but let's get back to the question what can money really buy?

Can it really buy us these: love? friendship? salvation? happiness? Money can't buy us love, as the Beatles would say. We can't put a price on love because it's not for sale. Love is priceless. Money can't buy us friendship either. If we think that having lots of money means it will lead to popularity and gaining new friends, then we're just kidding ourselves.

Thinking with this mentality will lead to believing that we could buy people's trusts, affections, as well as love. There are others claiming that they can buy their salvation, meaning we can buy our way into heaven. Well, we can't. Like love, salvation is also priceless because it can't be bought by money.

What about happiness? Can money really bring happiness into our lives? There is probably a viewpoint from the world that said having money will make us happy. But the "truth" is false. Money won't lead us to happiness nor can we buy happiness. If we become so consumed with making money all the time, using it to buy everything we see and holding on to our material possessions, then we'll be empty inside.

There is nothing wrong with having money in our lives. Nor making some either. It is important to support ourselves, our family and our friends financially. It is also important to have money to keep each other fed, clothed and bathed. However, we still have to be careful on how to deal with money in our lives.

Putting money at the center of our lives will lead to replacing the true God who created us in His image. In other words, money is what we'll worship by declaring it as a "God." But in the end, it will leave us empty inside our hearts. That leads once again to the question: what can money really buy?

Not our souls; not friends, love, salvation, redemption. Not even God.