Why Is Money Hard?

Money is hard. Most of us would accept that as an axiom. There’s never enough; we worry if we’re handling it well; we have to make difficult spending decisions and income decisions. Balancing a checkbook and balancing a spending plan – both seem beyond us.

It’s true that money is challenging – but not for the reasons we typically think. The math isn’t that difficult – and even if it were, we have calculators and software programs to do the math for us. The concepts aren’t esoteric. So why is money hard?

Money is hard because of what’s behind it – our motivations, our insecurities, our envy and discontentment. It’s hard because we’re looking to money to do what only God can do – provide joy, security, and peace. Maybe this is one of the reasons that Jesus told us we have to choose between serving God and serving money (Matthew 6:24).

Podcast host James Lenhoff takes us through some of the reasons why we really have trouble with money and shows us the road forward to put money in its place and God in his rightful place.