"The love of money is the root of evil, so any enjoyment of wealth is dangerous."
How it sounds in your head: You worked hard for this. But enjoying the truck, the vacation, the nicer home—it feels spiritually risky. What if you start loving money? Better to keep it clinical, steward it joylessly, never really enjoy it.
"Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy."
-- 1 Timothy 6:17Religion weaponized 1 Timothy 6:10 to make ALL wealth feel suspicious, ignoring God's command to ENJOY what He gives.
You've seen people who got wealthy and walked away from God. The association between wealth and spiritual coldness feels proven. Keeping wealth at arm's length feels safer.
Isaac sowed in the land and reaped in the same year a HUNDREDFOLD. 'The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; for he had possessions of flocks and herds and a great number of servants.' God-given prosperity, enjoyed and celebrated.
I REFUSE the lie that enjoying wealth is dangerous or unspiritual. IT IS WRITTEN that God gives us RICHLY all things to ENJOY—not endure, but ENJOY. I steward wealth with gratitude and trust God, not riches. IT IS WRITTEN that I am blessed in my storehouses and everything I set my hand to. The BARAK blessing is mine—I am the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath. I receive and enjoy God's gifts without guilt.
The Father didn't give the prodigal the robe and ring with a warning not to enjoy them—He gave them as GIFTS to be celebrated. The feast wasn't to be endured; it was to be ENJOYED. That's His heart.