Most of my blogging is to do with two, in polite circles, taboo subjects – religion and politics. Sometimes the two overlap, and sometimes they overlap a lot, as in this one concerning money.

I hope folk reading this will bear with me for not over rewinding the old gramophone record when it comes to my old blogs that have something to do with money, of which there have been a number.

Most recently, I wrote an episode in my Trumpwatch series titled “Trumpwatch 69 – Money makes the World go round” (see here), where among other things I reflected on the DOGE and USAID that is meant to be exposing (and I believe is) the huge amounts of money that is misappropriated by US government agencies. Much else can be said and I have said in my blogs that are to do with money, such as the (hopefully) soon to be dismantled US Federal Reserve, the challenge to the supremacy to the US dollar as the number one world currency e.g. by BRICS, a major readjustment to the world banking system that is soon to come that will affect us all, and the introduction of digital IDs for buying and selling that relate to social credit scores leading to the Mark of the Beast.

Then there is one of my beefs around the current UK administration that is further penalising financially the poor yet at the same time persist in sending obscene amounts of our money to corrupt Ukraine leaders. It begs the question where best to invest our money, if we have it, e.g. traditional ways involving stocks and shares, silver and gold, crypto-currency or is it to help others?

One of my favourite songs, from one of my favourite musicals (Cabaret), is “Money makes the World go around”, sung by one of the main characters, Sally Bowles, and the Master of Ceremonies of the Kit Kat club, which was fictionally operating just before Second World War, in Berlin. Besides simply liking the song, it points out a profound truth, along the lines “follow the money” if we want to know who is truly running the world and benefiting from much of the unpleasantness we are now seeing.

Then there is the matter of helping the have nots, not just in the UK but the world at large where many of those who are having not do so to a disturbing extent. It is one reason why this now days cannabe Labour supporter was once an isabe and, more recently, a wannabe supporter, mindful that my own modest efforts to help others using my own money are a mere drop in the ocean to what is needed.

Perhaps surprisingly for those who think the Bible is for those whose heads are in the clouds, it teaches us a lot about money. Back to the old gramophone record, if people want to know my (I believe God given yet still work in progress when it comes to accumulating it) wisdom on the subject, from a Christian perspective (even though I know some Christians may dismiss and even get annoyed over what I have to say, e.g. my views on tithing and stewardship), then check out something I wrote five and half years ago that I still agree with:

What is the right Christian approach to money (1) (see here)

What is the right Christian approach to money (2) (see here).

I agree with dear John Wesley. We are left here to be good stewards of all we have, including whatever money comes our way and those things that money can buy (noting much that is of worth it can’t and we do well to remember that godliness with contentment is great gain as many with little of the world’s goods have discovered) and this remains the soundest of basis on which we should live our lives.

Whatever comes our way (and who can say what), whether much or little, which we often cannot predict, we do well to remember it all belongs to God and is best used wisely and in His service, and it is in Him we must put our trust. As for the baddies using money to make the world around, this remains ever true, despite our best efforts to want/get the goodies in charge of the money, even though we could/should do what we can to pursue positive ends. In the final analysis, we must put our trust in God (rather than in money) and need to view money as a mere commodity that we can use in serving Him.