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Streaming services vs God’s work (When it comes to payment regularity)

All the streaming services comes with a monthly/annual subscription with Netflix being the costliest. “India’s streaming services market currently at $0.5 billion, is estimated to grow to ten times by 2023,” reports Outlook (25 February 2019). 

The question we must ask ourselves is this: do we happily pay for services like Netflix without second thought, month after month, but hesitate to do so when it comes to God’s Kingdom work? The people in the post-exilic period were busy building their own houses while they ignored the work of the rebuilding of the temple and this is what God told them: “You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it” (Haggai 1:6). The money we are happy to pay companies like Netflix month after month at the expense of giving for the work of God may eventually get ‘flicked’ – a modern believer can understand that from Haggai 1:6. We should not be like Solomon who spent far more time and treasure building his own palace (13 years) than the time and treasure he spent in building God’s house (7 years) (1 Kings 6:37; I Kings 7:1). 

May God give us wisdom about the use of streaming services!