In my past, I've had aspirations of becoming a songwriter/singer/musician.
Because of personal issues like shyness, anxiety I was never to find enough gumption within myself to do the performing artist thing.
What about songwriting for money though? Would it be permissible if
the songs I write are not of lust, greed and sex? Is it really a sin to
be wealthy, if one does give away money to charity?
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 6:
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
1 Peter 2
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1 John 2:15-17
King James Version (KJV)
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
These verses if read with prayer and a wanting to understand the will of our Heavenly Father should answer your question
Love in Christ
Josh