THE UNDERSTANDING OF WEALTH AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON CHRISTIANS LIVES, REFLECTION ON MARK 10:17 - 23

Abstract

There are many understandings and views about wealth, but which ever understanding one has for wealth, determines how one values it, searches for it, handles it, and uses it. The term “wealth” originates in a less commonly recognised form, “weal”, an Anglo-Saxon word now meaning a general state of well-being. For an individual the word “wealth” signifies well-being resulting from outward rather than inward causes such as health or contentment1. Wealth is not innate evil but an opportunity for godly service. Though wealth is not the greatest value on earth, wealth can be a good thing. We should however not put our trust in it because it can be lost or stolen