Worship and Money

I have been pondering for sometimes now, how to not to love money. For this is the root of all sins. The Bible declares we must love God and yet despise the love of money. Recently I have gone to my Pastor to learn the stewardship principle. The first thing I needed to do was to track what I was spending on. I discovered that I was throwing money at things that had no value. Pop, eating out excessively, and gas. It was very eye opening as to my lack of control. As I looked at this for over a week, I realized I was not seeking to do good works God had prepared for me to do because of this abuse. Then God gave me a thought. How do I not worship money? The answer was to decide to worship God with all the money I had and not just Tithing. This thought liberated me. I made the decision (a realistic decision) to limit myself two bought drinks at quick stop stores and only one eat out one meal a day. I now take with me canned fish to stop paying for snacks. For the first time in my life financial freedom is in sight. PTL