Daily Faith Walk

Money doesn't just test your budget. It tests what you actually believe about God, whether He's near or distant, generous or stingy, paying attention or not. If you're lying awake doing arithmetic instead of praying, or avoiding your banking app because you already know it's bad news, you're in familiar territory. Most of us have been there. This isn't a piece about feeling less anxious. It's about what to actually do. Why this is genuinely hard Here's the honest problem: the Bible does make bold statements about God's provision, and real life sometimes doesn't match them. Psalm 37:25 says the psalmist never saw the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread, but he's writing as an old man summarizing a lifetime's observation, part of a wisdom psalm, not issuing a legal guarantee. Faithful people have gone hungry. Job did. Many in the persecuted church still do. So when your rent is late despite your prayers, it's fair to ask...

What does the Bible actually say about money and giving, and does the Old Testament tithe still apply to Christians? Short answer. The Bible treats money as morally neutral but spiritually revealing. Wealth itself is never condemned, Abraham and Job were rich, but the love of money is called 'a root of all kinds of evil' (1 Timothy 6:10). Everything belongs to God; we manage it, we don't own it (Psalm 24:1). The Old Testament required a tithe to support the Levites and the poor. The New Testament doesn't repeat that command as law, it calls Christians to generous, cheerful, proportional giving decided in the heart, not extracted by rule (2 Corinthians 9:7). Many Christians still use ten percent as a helpful starting benchmark, but it's wisdom, not a debt owed to stay right with God. Money is not the problem, what it does to your heart is Paul doesn't say money is the root of evil. He says the love of it is (1 Timothy 6:10). That distinction matters, because i...