Financial Trust
Proverbs 28
20 A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
25 A greedy man stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the LORD will be enriched.
All too often we are quick to push ourselves to success. We want more, we strive for more, we allow ourselves to have more when we should not. Our greed and selfishness show themselves in ways we often do not expect. It can be subtle and very destructive. In the modern day of the “credit culture” we have the ability to allow ourselves whatever we want nearly whenever we want it. We have no sense or need to work for it in our own minds. Our desires and whims are easily “fulfilled” by ourselves with little thought or heed to the consequences of those choices.
The wisdom here must be heeded – by hastening the path to wealth or creating it on our own out of a sense of entitlement or out of a false sense of security, surely will have its punishment. If even we experience the “benefits” of our greed in the short term the long term consequences are much more fatal.
Our consequences may not come quickly, in reality we may not even truly see them here, though many will. We can be assured that we will not go unpunished. The word of God is very clear on this point.
Still there is hope as God also promises us that a “faithful man will abound with blessings” and he also promises to provide for our needs as the promises of Matthew 6 remind us. Our God has loving created us and he will provide for all our needs our role is to trust him and be faithful in all we do.
In practical ways that includes heading the wisdom found in
“26 Be not one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts. 27 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?”
The wisdom here lies in not paying for anything you do not have the money for when you purchase it. We must trust in the Lord to provide for it and not rush to provide it for ourselves. We are of so little faith sometimes. God has promised that through our faithfulness, discipline and trust we will live a life enriched, abounding with blessings and be provided for.
The trick is in the trust. We need to be patient and prudent. We need to let God work and not rush ourselves to our goals. We need to keep before us the reminder that we can not buy what we do not have the money to purchase today and follow through with that. But along with that thought we must also keep before us the reminder that God will always provide for us what we need. The Israelites experienced this in very real ways in Deuteronomy 8. As God provided daily food for them and protected their clothing from wearing out. He provides in the years of little and in the years of plenty. We need to allow him to provide and stop taking that upon ourselves.
Our role rather is to trust him and be faithful with what he provides.
20 A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
25 A greedy man stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the LORD will be enriched.
All too often we are quick to push ourselves to success. We want more, we strive for more, we allow ourselves to have more when we should not. Our greed and selfishness show themselves in ways we often do not expect. It can be subtle and very destructive. In the modern day of the “credit culture” we have the ability to allow ourselves whatever we want nearly whenever we want it. We have no sense or need to work for it in our own minds. Our desires and whims are easily “fulfilled” by ourselves with little thought or heed to the consequences of those choices.
The wisdom here must be heeded – by hastening the path to wealth or creating it on our own out of a sense of entitlement or out of a false sense of security, surely will have its punishment. If even we experience the “benefits” of our greed in the short term the long term consequences are much more fatal.
Our consequences may not come quickly, in reality we may not even truly see them here, though many will. We can be assured that we will not go unpunished. The word of God is very clear on this point.
Still there is hope as God also promises us that a “faithful man will abound with blessings” and he also promises to provide for our needs as the promises of Matthew 6 remind us. Our God has loving created us and he will provide for all our needs our role is to trust him and be faithful in all we do.
In practical ways that includes heading the wisdom found in
“26 Be not one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts. 27 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?”
The wisdom here lies in not paying for anything you do not have the money for when you purchase it. We must trust in the Lord to provide for it and not rush to provide it for ourselves. We are of so little faith sometimes. God has promised that through our faithfulness, discipline and trust we will live a life enriched, abounding with blessings and be provided for.
The trick is in the trust. We need to be patient and prudent. We need to let God work and not rush ourselves to our goals. We need to keep before us the reminder that we can not buy what we do not have the money to purchase today and follow through with that. But along with that thought we must also keep before us the reminder that God will always provide for us what we need. The Israelites experienced this in very real ways in Deuteronomy 8. As God provided daily food for them and protected their clothing from wearing out. He provides in the years of little and in the years of plenty. We need to allow him to provide and stop taking that upon ourselves.
Our role rather is to trust him and be faithful with what he provides.
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