Spend, spend, spend, or course scream the TV, radio and newspaper advertisements - more convincingly from all appearances. Seldom does anyone tell us that in order to save our money, we should give it away. I believe money is like children. We just have our children on loan from God for a few years while they grow up. Our real job in life is to turn our kids lose equipped to be Christian disciples.
Money is like that.
It finds its greatest value when we give it away. Talk about being counter culture, however. If we treated money as Jesus would have us treat life, and in many ways our money is our life, our economy, not to mention the entire banking and investment economy would crumble. That is not something we can understand by running it through our intellect. Perhaps most mysterious of all is Jesus' statement to Nicodemus and to us that we must be born anew.