A Daily Devotional – The Victory of Faith – The Eternal Word
Comment: Solomon wrote Proverbs throughout
his life, others gathered these together to make the book of Proverbs. So around
1000 BC, Solomon wrote “A man with an evil eye hastens after riches, and does
not consider that poverty will come upon him, Proverbs 28:22.” The wisdom of
this statement is large since the man who chases after riches is already in
poverty, otherwise why would he chase after riches? We attach riches to silver
and gold, when the truth is, poverty encamps on every avenue of life. A person
who fails to trust the wisdom of God is in poverty to Truth, a person who
willingly fails to study in human life is considered ignorant and needy.
Devotional: In
our present time in history, we are no different than those in the days of
Solomon. Children rob parents and neighbors, they willingly destroy places of
business, they kill and are being killed, and they are friends with harlots, they
willingly waste national resources in all areas of life. This is not the way of
prosperity, need I say anymore?
Proverbs, mostly written by Solomon provide the man or
woman of God with “skill in living life”, that is living life in accordance
with God’s design for human life. If a man or woman is not satisfied with what
they see with their eyes then the only thing they have to look forward to is “hell
and destruction”, Proverbs 27:20 states clearly that, Sheol and Abaddon are
never full. If we are not willing to look at the Living Word of God for skill
in living, we are doomed to poverty.
For me, the deepest poverty I can imagine is to go
into eternity without any skill in living a full life as designed by the Word
of God. Therefore we should trust the words of the apostles and prophets who
clearly reveal God’s Will for man and woman. “For God so loved the world, that
He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, should not
perish but have everlasting life”. John 3:16
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