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Weekly Bible Verse – Acquiring Wealth and Honor
Humility and the fear of the LORD bring wealth and honour and life. Proverbs 22:4 (NIV)
So the latest get rich quick scheme of using Twitter to send out tweets about selling an e-book that shows other people how to get rich by sending out tweets about selling an e-book is maybe not the best way to ensure wealth? (note to self: cross that off todo list)
In fact, according to Proverbs 22:4, you can acquire not only wealth but also honor and life by following this piece of advice (even if you can acquire some wealth by sending out those tweets, I can pretty much guarantee you that path won’t lead to honor for you!). So how do you get acquire all this, you ask? The answer is through “humility” and “fear of the Lord.”
Maybe that’s not the answer you were looking for? It certainly falls about 180 degrees from the manner to achieve wealth and honor preached by our society. No, the world tells us that we need to be hard-charging, to work longer hours than everyone else, to devote ourselves to our work above all else in life, and certainly not to ever be humble about anything! Are you surprised that’s not the exact path laid out by the Bible?
In contrast, what the Bible is telling us is to devote ourselves to God above all else and to rely on Him to provide us a path to wealth. Now, I’m not a Biblical scholar, but from what I can tell this isn’t a case of the word for “wealth” actually meaning something possibly more nebulous like “prosperity.” It appears to be used in the Bible to mean actual “riches” and “wealth.” That notwithstanding, please don’t skip over the other two words in this verse – especially the last. I would argue that “Life” is much more valuable than money.
So, humbling yourself before God, having that healthy respect/fear for Him, devoting yourself to His purpose, relying on Him, that brings you not only wealth and honor but also life? Yes, please – sign me up for that!
God bless and have a great week…
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