Recently a quote attributed to rapper Lil Wayne has been going around Facebook. It goes:
“I gotta die with money cuz I wasn’t born with it”
What is worrisome is that some take that as their life statement, an end goal for their lives. Is money important? You better believe it. I’d rather have some than not have any. But I don’t believe that is the goal of my life, it’s certainly not a philosophy I would hinge my life and eternity on.
I was reminded of one of my late uncles that used to jokingly say, “I was born bald, fat and toothless; and I plan on dying that way too”. Sadly during his last days he wasted away badly due to cancer, so I suppose he got the bald and toothless part right.
So what is your life goal? When you are gone, what will you be remembered for? Back to Lil Wayne for just a moment, the opposite would be to die without money. This reminds me of the man Job from the Old Testament book named after him, for a time it appeared he would die poor and penniless. Too often when we talk of people in the Bible we use the term “Bible Character”. Let me remind you that they were not ‘characters’ like in a play or a movie, they were real living, breathing people that walked the face of the earth as we do. The reason this is so significant is that we can learn from them. Learn from their victories and, yes, their failures and tragedies. That is one of the reasons that we can trust the Bible’s accuracy, it doesn’t just whitewash over the failures of those written of in it’s pages, it tells of their shortcomings and struggles. Shortcomings and struggles just like me and you.
