Tremendous Tracey

Addiction isn't a weakness. It's devotion aimed at the wrong altar. A line from Ty Ngachira sent me back to a strange little phrase in Hosea 13 — "kiss the calves" — where God's people melted their own silver into an idol and bowed to the work of their own hands. Money does that. It doesn't create what's inside us; it reveals and magnifies it. Hand a fortune to a whole person, and it becomes a tool. Hand it to a hollow one, and it becomes a god. From Arthur Guinness to Milton Hershey to a short tax collector in a sycamore tree, here's what righteous wealth looks like when devotion gets redirected.