If I had more money, wouldn't I finally be generous with it?

It's interesting, because with the dwarves, and I've meditated on this so many times since we watched the Hobbit movie a couple months back or whatever it was, the dwarves, they do everything they can to get the money, and as soon as they get the money they start to realize that the gold is cursed. And I was thinking, how much are we like the dwarves? Everybody thinks that if they just get enough money they're going to do all this good. In their mind they're like, if I became a millionaire I would help build churches, I would do this, I would do that, if I got the money I would help the people around me. And it's so interesting, because Saint John Chrysostom seventeen hundred years ago says, those who fantasize about the good that they would do with money are just greedy people in disguise. Because what happens is we think if we had more we would give more. But we don't even give proportionally with what we currently have. And so it is that God knows that he can't trust us with more. The scriptures say God makes the rich and the poor daily. And we often think that there is some amount of money that we could possibly get that we would do good with, but the great irony is, for ninety-nine percent of us, we would not do the good that we intended to do. And the other interesting part is that God doesn't need us to have the money, and God doesn't need us to do it. We often think if we could just get it, we would right the ship, we would do things right. But it's such a great irony that if we got the money, you got a million bucks, and then you paid thirty-five percent to taxes, and then you had six hundred and fifty thousand left, and then you'd go, oh well, you know, I really do need to set some money aside for the future, and I should probably get some dividend stocks, and then I should probably do this and that. And then after all of it you'd be like, well, maybe I have a hundred thousand left over. And then they'd be like, Father Moses, do I need to give a hundred thousand, because I was given a million but I only received six hundred and fifty thousand of it? Should I tithe before or after taxes on it, because it's thirty-five thousand difference? And then you would think about that. And then pretty soon that money wouldn't be so much. But the point being that that is the nature of money. We often think that it's just this thing. It's not just a thing. It has a particular hold upon our souls. We think, oh, I'm not tithing now because I only make fifty thousand a year. When I make a hundred thousand a year, then I'll tithe. I'll tell you now, if you don't tithe at fifty, you will not tithe at a hundred, or a hundred and fifty, or two hundred thousand. Because every single increment, the pain will become more amplified the more money you have to give away. If you don't become accustomed to being generous and giving even when you have a little bit, and sacrificing, the sacrifice becomes more exponential later on. You think, wow, it's so much to give five grand if I have fifty thousand in income. But fast forward when that same person hits a hundred and fifty thousand, they're like, am I really going to give fifteen grand away? You know what I could do with that?