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Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

It’s God’s Money

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It's God's Money

I wrote an article titled “The Christian Trader: God’s Money” on 3/19/13 for my trading blog, Trader Educator Online. Today, I was inspired to revisit the topic.

Recently, I refinanced my house at a great interest rate. During the closing, the bank paid one-half of my real-estate taxes out of escrow. Yesterday, I called the governmental agency responsible for real-estate taxes. The following describes the salient points of a discussion I had with a very nice government employee with an interesting perspective:

Terry: “I just refinanced my house and want to check that the bank paid the first half of my real-estate taxes.”

Nice Lady: “The owner paid them.”

Terry: “I am the owner and I didn’t pay them.”

Nice Lady: “The owner paid them.”

Terry: “I am the owner and I didn’t pay them. The bank paid them.”

Nice Lady: “No, the owner paid them.”

Terry: (thinking) By now, I feel like I am in a new episode of The Twilight Zone. So I say, “I guess it doesn’t matter who paid the first half of the real-estate taxes, just that they’re paid.”

The nice lady agreed. So we discussed the second-half of the real-estate taxes while I felt a sense of lingering weirdness.

In God’s Hands

When I told this story to my wife, Deb, we both laughed. Then I had a spontaneous thought that the dialogue works if the owner is God and if it’s God’s money. I needed to be reminded that all my money comes through the grace of God. Since we were just guided by God to take a financial risk in our lives, we needed this reminder.  Now we are living on the razor’s edge (paradoxically, the safest place to be) and our fate is in God’s hands. I guess this isn’t different from any other day.

Background Image by Helder Almeida.

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Comments

  1. Maya says

    July 8, 2013 at 10:09 am

    Great story 🙂 Thanks for the useful informations.
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    • Terry Chitwood says

      December 3, 2013 at 9:43 am

      Thank you for your comment, Maya.
      Terry Chitwood recently posted..The Christian Writer: Weaving Mystery into StoryMy Profile

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  2. Justin says

    December 3, 2013 at 5:38 am

    What an interesting way to look at that situation. God will provide, we just need to trust him and welcome him into our lives with open arms. Thanks for sharing your fantastic story.
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    • Terry Chitwood says

      December 3, 2013 at 9:40 am

      Thank you for your kind comment, Justin.
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