1. 比安貧樂道更難的,是給你財富,而你仍然是原來的那一個人。
「你要囑咐那些今世富足的人,不要心思高傲,也不要寄望於無定的錢財,只要寄望於那將百物豐富的供給我們享受的神;」(提前6:17)
Charge those who are rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to set their hope on the uncertainty of riches but on God, who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment;
-1 Timothy 6:17
2. 學會怎麼賺錢以後,下一步是學習怎麼使喚錢,而不是被錢使喚。
「因為貪財是萬惡之根,有人貪戀錢財,就受迷惑,離棄了信仰,用許多苦痛把自己刺透了。」(提前6:10)
For the love of money is a root of all evils, because of which some, aspiring after money, have been led away from the faith and pierced themselves through with many pains.
-1 Timothy 6:10
3. 要賺得比錢更多,否則潮汐退去時,連那些賺來的錢也不是你的。
「神卻對他說,無知的人哪,今夜必要你的魂;你所豫備的,要歸誰?那為自己積財,對神卻不富足的,也是這樣。」(路12:20-21)
But God said to him, Foolish one, this night they are requiring your soul from you; and the things which you have prepared, whose will they be? So is he who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.
-Luke12:20-21
4. 當你總是為自己保留時,最好去查查天上的帳戶是不是空的。
「你們要給人,就必有給你們的,用十足的量器,連搖帶按,上尖下流的倒在你們懷裏;因為你們用甚麼量器量給人,也必用甚麼量器量給你們。」(路6:38)
Give, and it will be given to you; a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, they will give into your bosom. For with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you in return.
-Luke6:38
5. 活出你在地上的價值,比用肝換來一張支票更富足。
「所以人若潔淨自己,脫離這些卑賤的,就必成為貴重的器皿,分別為聖,合乎主人使用,豫備行各樣的善事。」(提後2:21)
If therefore anyone cleanses himself from these, he will be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, useful to the master, prepared unto every good work.
-2 Timothy 2:21
6. 用錢結交朋友,並且送給他錢也買不到的事物,這種人才是精明人。
「我又告訴你們,要藉著那不義的錢財,為自己結交朋友,到了錢財無用的時候,他們可以接你們到永遠的帳幕裏去。」(路16:9)
And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves by means of the mammon of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.
-Luke16:9
7. 真正的富足,是在外面一無所有的時候,才看得出裡頭究竟有沒有!
「我知道怎樣處卑賤,也知道怎樣處富餘;或飽足、或飢餓、或富餘、或缺乏,在各事上,並在一切事上,我都學得祕訣。」(腓4:12)
I know also how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to hunger, both to abound and to lack.
-Philippians4:12