Wealth Comes By Humility
boykhilo (42) in steemchurch • 2 days ago
Proverbs 22:4
By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.

To whom does God give wealth? Who are the recipient of riches and honour from God? Our opening Scripture answers this question. It tells us that by humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life. The world believes that the contrary is true. They believe that pride and corruption in despise of God's ways bring prosperity. They are ignorant of the fact that God created the earth, and the principles that govern the world are of and from Him. The devil did not create the earth, and so his ungodly principles of amassing wealth are not original; he only wants to twist God's principles to create his own. The earth will only respond faithfully and consistently to God's principles of wealth creation, not the devil's.

Proverbs 13:22 tells us that
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

All the wealth that the ungodly are gathering far themselves is only temporal. The unchanging Word of God says the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just; which means they laid it up, but not for themselves. They only laid up the wealth for the just. The just is a righteous man who fears the Lord and walks in His ways. He does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the ways of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful (Psalms 121-3).