TOO MUCH WATER!
Watching the news tonight I was reminded of how water is a unique resource. Everyone needs it to live, yet some areas can be devastated with too much water (flooding in Pennsylvania) and some are devastated by not enough (the wildfires in the West). It occurred to me that money is like water in this way as well. Too much and you can become overwhelmed and destroyed. Not enough and you can waste away. Ideally you want to always have water in plenty, hoping to never run out, but too much equals disaster. Here is where the analogy breaks down. Even a fool would not wish for too much water, and if we find ourselves in excessive supply we are more than willing to part with it to others in need. In a sense we know that if you do not use the excess it is wasted. Yet, even those considered smart among us wish for too much money. We even wish for massive, instant, excessive amounts of money. How would it sound for someone to wish and pray for a devastating hurricane? Here are words spoken 3000 years ago in the Sayings of Agur

" . . .give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you
and say, 'Who is the LORD ?'
Or I may become poor and steal,
and so dishonor the name of my God."

Are we asking for too much and not willing to give away something so excessive that we risk drowning in it?