Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Patrick Miller.

John D Rockefeller was once asked, how much money is enough money?

His answer, just a little bit more.

Some of us are judging, but most of us are seeing ourselves in the mirror. I've heard people say a lot of things but I've never

heard someone say I have enough money. The simple fact is that being born in America we have

been trained from birth to believe that happiness is found

in abundance and abundance is found in the power to buy things with more and more and more money.

That's how our consumer economy works,

and that consumer economy certainly

has brought about a tremendous amount of wealth

and quality of life for many people.

But do you want to know what's striking to me?

Jesus never once teaches his apprentices to pursue money. Now sometimes we think of

Jesus as a penniless beggar who was going from town to town.

The reality is that was probably far from the truth.

His ministry gathered enough money that he needed one of his students, a guy named Judas,

to manage their bank accounts. But still, Jesus showed far more skepticism

about money than we do today. He said that no one can serve God and money any more than a servant can serve two different masters.

But beyond that he made some radical claims about how to have enough.

In Luke 620 we read,

Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

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