"God answers my prayers everywhere except on the golf-course."
Where is our treasure?
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth...but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven. Matthew 6:19-20In the UK we have two sayings about financial security: “Safe as houses” and “Safe as the Bank of England”. The problem is that in the global financial crisis which started in 2008, houses and the banks were shown not to be very safe. One of the UK’s biggest commercial banks had to be baled out by the government and lots of ordinary people found that their houses were worth less than the loan they had taken out to buy the house.
Now of course we live in the real world and we have to have possessions and savings. Knowing when we have enough and when we are “storing up treasure” is not a simple distinction. And if we are honest, it is much easier to “trust God” for our future when we know we have money in the bank or a pension plan. A real question is how have we responded to the global financial crisis: by becoming more anxious about money or by rejoicing that the kingdom of God is of first importance to us?
It is as much a challenge for those of us who work in the world of sport as to people who work in finance or any other sphere of society.