A Truckload Of Hammers

You see your neighbor pull in their driveway with a dump truck filled so full of hammers, some of them are spilling off to the side.

What do you think about this?

‘Slightly odd‘ you might say.

‘Evil?’ – probably not.

‘My neighbor must be a crook.’ – unlikely.

Swap out the hammers for stacks of $100 bills and all of a sudden the story changes.

People tend to have all kind’s of negative beliefs about money.

I was taught that ‘Money is the root of all evil.’

Someone once told me ‘in order to have money, you must take from someone else and therefore – having lots of it is not a righteous way to live.’

Hammers can be used to build and they can be used to destroy.

And it’s the same with money.

Both are tools that can be used for positive or negative goals.

A truckload of hammers could be used to build a neighborhood of homes for homeless people.

Would we say to the driver of that truck, ‘you should have less hammers?’