"Wanting financial abundance is selfish when others have so little."
How it sounds in your head: You're pulling down a six-figure salary while people are starving. How dare you want more when kids in Africa don't have clean water? The guilt gnaws at you every time you even think about building wealth. Real Christians sacrifice everything and live on rice and beans.
"And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work."
-- 2 Corinthians 9:8Source: Religion's poverty gospel twisting Jesus' voluntary poverty into a command, making lack a virtue and abundance a sin.
You see the needs around you and the wealth gap feels obscene. Every financial blessing feels like it comes at someone else's expense, like there's only so much to go around and you're hoarding your piece.
Abraham was VERY RICH in livestock, silver, and gold—so wealthy it caused logistical problems with his nephew Lot. God didn't rebuke his wealth; He GAVE it as part of the covenant blessing to make him a blessing to nations.
I REFUSE the lie that wanting abundance is selfish. IT IS WRITTEN that God makes all grace abound toward me so I always have all sufficiency with abundance for every good work. My Father delights in the PROSPERITY of His servant. I am an heir of Abraham's blessing—the BARAK that protected liars and deceivers protects me in CHRIST with even greater covenant promises. IT IS WRITTEN that the blessing of Abraham has come upon me through Christ Jesus. I receive abundance NOT to hoard but to be a conduit of His provision. I am the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath.
Your Father is running toward you with the fattened calf, not rationing rice and beans. He doesn't measure your worthiness by your bank account but floods you with abundance so you can flood others—the river flows THROUGH you, not to a dam.