What is your definition of success?  Is it to have a great-paying job?  To make a difference in the lives of those around you?  To be respected? To have a solid marriage?  Ultimately, happiness seems to revolve around how we deal with money–not in money itself.  In Hebrews 13:5, Paul writes, Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”  

When we’re locked into the striving-for-money maze, there are many dark corners that lead nowhere good.  With God’s help, we can either go around the maze or find a more direct route through it.

Unfortunately, many get lost in the maze.  Based on what we see in movies or television or read in books or magazines (or online) or hear on the radio, it seems that many are focused on the…