俗語說，「人為財死，鳥為食亡。」大部份人的一生大概就只追求兩樣東西：愛情和財富。兩者都是和生存和生命延續有關的，而錢財往往又比愛情重要，因為許多人為了財富可以放棄愛情和家庭的幸福。
人對財富的態度，也可以用來衡量他的價值觀，知道在他的一生中什麼才是最重要的。這就是耶穌所說的，「你的財寶在那裡，你的心就在那裡」。（太6:21）聖經要我們作十一奉獻，一方面可以藉此反映我們對神和祂的國度的態度，另一方面也讓我們操練過以神為主的生活，不把錢財放得比神還要高、還要重要的地位。
聖經並沒有禁止我們賺錢，更沒有禁止我們經營致富。聖經，特別在舊約，經常以地上物質的豐富來應許愛神守律法的人。但聖經也很清楚把愛神和遵行祂旨意放在首先，地上物質的祝福放在第二。先有第一才會有第二，不然，有了財富我們也不會運用，反而被財富所害，使自己更遠離神，把祝福變成詛咒。
我們到底有多愛神和祂的國度呢？很簡單，我們可以馬上意識到的，看看我們每星期向祂所作的奉獻便大概明白了。
In a Chinese saying, “Man will die for money and bird will be captured by chasing food.” Majority of people chase after only two things in their lives, and these things are love and money. They both have one thing in common, which is the motivation of survival. Between money and love, money is always more important than love, for many people are willing to sacrifice love and family happiness for money.
Our attitude toward wealth can also be used as a measure to check the priority in our lives to reveal things that have more value. Therefore, Jesus once said, “For your heart will always be where your riches are.” (Matt. 6:21) Bible requires us to tithe to reflect our attitude toward God and His kingdom, and on the other hand, to allow us to practice not putting money higher than God.
Bible does not prohibit us to earn money or do business to create wealth. In the Old Testament, especially, is using material goods as blessing to those who love God and obey His word. However, Bible does make it very clear that, loving God should be put first, and the material blessings will follow. Or otherwise, we don’t know how to use wealth correctly, further more to depart us from God, and turn blessing into cursing in our lives.
Do we really know how much we love God? It is very simple, and we can find out immediately by seeing how we give to God in every worship service.
