April 22, 2024 – Making A Dollar Go Farther

Making A Dollar Go Farther
April 22, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 10:14-16
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

 

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

    During the years I spent working in factories, I noticed a truth that I believe Scripture is trying to convey.

 

    As an unbeliever, when others and I, who did not know Christ as our Savior, worked a full 40-hour week like everyone else, at the end of the week, I would still be broke. I never seemed to have money for anything. I looked around and saw some of these people working 50, 60, and even 70 hours in a week and still not getting ahead. Even those who seemed to have many of life’s luxuries were not satisfied with them. They were always wanting more or working longer to maintain them. When bonus time came around, some would cash those extra checks and hide the money from their spouses, fearing they would not get to keep any of it if they did not.

 

    When I accepted Christ as my Savior, things changed. I still had the same job, and I didn’t get a raise for being saved. I began tithing, which meant I was now taking ten percent, and more, from the check that never seemed to be enough before, and gave it to the Lord. However, it felt like life had a new purpose. Somehow, my money was going farther. God began convicting me about some harmful habits I had formed. When I finally quit them and surrendered them to Him, I had even more money.

 

    The labor of the righteous is just the same as the labor of the unrighteous, yet it seems to yield more. God seems to multiply it somehow and bless those who serve Him.

 

    Our verses today say, “The labour of the righteous tendeth to life.” It is a real life, and a fulfilling life in Christ.

 

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

    We only have a limited number of years on Earth with our loved ones. It’s a shame that so many people strive so hard to acquire material possessions that they will ultimately have to leave behind. Life is meant to be lived. Live it in Christ, and He will make so much more out of what you already have.

 

What you spending your precious days and hours on?

 

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and todays Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME: APRIL 22, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
    1 Kings 5-7
   Proverbs 10:14-16

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
   Ruth 3-1 Samuel 1
   Luke 16:1-17