Thought of the Day 07.08.09

The other day I was listening to a news story about a charity that helps underprivileged kids. What seemed like a good story quickly turned bad, however, when they began discussing how the president of the charity had been caught misusing funds.

Instead of buying books for the kids, she has been leasing a luxury automobile. Instead of buying lunches for the children, she has been wining and dining her romantic partners. Instead of helping the kids get computers, she had bought a whole new home entertainment center and hi-speed Internet service. In short, although she had been using some of the funds properly, she had been pilfering the vast majority of it for her own personal luxuries.

What was her defense? “What’s the big deal? After all, it was my fundraising skills that got that money for us in the first place.” Awful, right?

Now the good news is that there was no such woman in the news. But if God gives us money to use for His purposes, then the bad news is we must all admit that, essentially, we are her.