Saturday, September 29, 2012

Read Proverbs 16:8  Our verse uses the word revenueRevenue means income or money that you make from your job or from your work.  Back in Solomon's day, people made money from their crops and flocks.  They planted five baskets of wheat and harvested two hundred baskets in return.  That is good revenue.  They had fifty sheep and their sheep had little lambs in the spring and the flock increased to eighty sheep.  That was pretty good revenue.  A wealthy man invested five hundred shekels with a ship captain whose ship was sailing to Arabia.  The ship returned five months later with a cargo of spices and silk and the captain gave the investor two thousand shekels for his risk.  That was good revenue.  Solomon said in our verse that it would be better to have just a little of money with a clean conscience towards God that have a lot of money that had been gotten through crooked ways.  It is better to work honestly for your money than to get a lot of money from selling drugs.  When you get your money the right way, you can sleep well at night and you don't have to worry about someone driving by and shooting up your house because of a drug deal that goes wrong.  Earn money the honest way and God will bless you and you will have peace of mind.  It is not how much money you have, but how you can enjoy the money that you do have.  That is called contentment.  When you work hard, the money that you get is exactly the amount of money that God wants you to have.  And that is enough.  It is all that you need.  After all, God knows what we need and gives us just enough!  He is faithful.

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