God's Economy: Hungry for More

Out of all the Disney movies I've seen, Pinocchio is not one of my favorites. The part on Paradise Island always creeped me out too much to enjoy the rest of the movie. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is the first person I've read that focuses on what Paradise Island resembles instead of using the story to show kids why it's bad to lie. Paradise Island shows what happens when people give in to their desires to a point that they become a slave to it. In this case, they get turned into a donkey. This is how it is with many people in America and money, and can be seen so easily at this point in our lives. I am sure many of you have experienced a time where a friend or relative asks you what you plan on doing when you graduate college, and if you don't answer a career that is associated with making a lot of money they try and persuade you to change your mind. I get this all the time. My uncle always tells me to go into pharmaceutics because that is where the money is. The fact that I think working in pharmaceutics would drive me as crazy as working in an office for the rest of my life doesn't matter to him because it would mean I would be making a lot of money. After all, success is defined by how much money you have, right? Most of us know that this is not right, and Wilson-Hartgrove does a good job at making sure we know this is wrong. Last Wednesday we were encouraged to figure out the audience for Wilson-Hartgrove compared to that of Thurman. Thurman wrote to those who are disinherited, and Wilson-Hartgrove seems to be writing to those who are just the opposite. He writes to encourage them to stop and think about the way that they are spending their money, and that they spend it in a way that is glorifying to God.