April 24, 2024 – It’s Worth More Than GOLD

It’s Worth More Than GOLD
April 24, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 10:21-23
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

 

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

      Gold, gold, I found gold! Can you imagine what it must have been like to witness the thrill of prospectors in the Old West discovering gold? To be there when their hard work paid off, and they finally uncovered what they had been tirelessly searching for?

 

      However, shortly after the first prospector claimed his site and rightfully began mining his discovered gold, came the outlaws and villains of the day. They initiated a reign of terror, killing people, driving honest miners off their claims, and stealing their hard-earned gold. They took something for which they had never worked.

 

       But how could they possibly enjoy their ill-gotten gains? The truth is, they couldn’t truly enjoy it. If they had no conscience regarding their actions and no remorse for their sins, they would ultimately meet their fate in hell. Their brief years on earth with someone else’s treasure would pale in comparison and become insignificant after their initial moments in hell. If, later in life, they were convicted of their wrongdoing and sought God’s forgiveness, all the days they spent with stolen goods would haunt them as a constant reminder. The gold they coveted so desperately would become a stark symbol of their sinful nature.

 

      When God rewards those He has made righteous for living in accordance with His Word and will, there is never any sorrow mixed with it. No guilty conscience to weigh them down. God blesses His own with love, land, laughter, and life. In contrast, those who believed a sinful life would bring them happiness are left with loneliness, lost love, fading memories, and a lack of true life.

 

      I once read the words of someone who said, “What good is money if you can’t enjoy it honestly?” Indeed, what good is it? God’s blessings are eternal and come without any sorrow attached.     

 

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

     The joy of a Christian life is that we don’t have to spend half our life, looking over our shoulder. We can spend all of our life looking up, and forward. 

 

What are you looking toward today?

 

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 24, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
    1 Kings 11-13
   Proverbs 10:21-23

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
   1 Samuel 5-8
   Luke 17