DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: FEBRUARY 26 TRUSTING IN RICHES (2) SCRIPTURE: PSALMS 49: 6, 9 – 10
Yesterday’s devotional tried to tell readers the vanity that underlays putting confidence and trust in riches and wealth while alive. Job, as read yesterday would say: “If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold you are my security, then let briers come up instead of wheat and weeds instead of barley” (Job 31: 24, 40 NIV). Job’s saying can be summed up as “If I have place my trust in riches and wealth, let no fruitful results come out of my labours. The Psalmist in today’s devotional is talking on futility of life. He sees no reason in trusting riches and wealth as well claiming to be have what it takes to think one can live forever due to wisdom acquired because all living person will certainly die and buried forever.
There ought to be best ways of running our affairs of life rather than putting all our trusts in money, abundance of materials and properties. This devotional frowned on the ways some pursue riches and wealth to the detriments of fellow human beings. Poverty is not pious position and should not be preached to be embraced religiously. We Christians will not go to hell if riches and wealth is pursued righteously and used for the goodness of human beings. Today’s devotional chooses to reproduce few people’s mind on riches and how to use them rather than trusting in them above all other thing else. If money or reaches is sought for one’s personal comfort and boastfulness, the aim of getting it is defeated. Riches and wealth should be sought for solving human problems. Mike Murdock says as quote: “Money is a reward for solving problems.”
As Christians we must know how wrong it is to pursue riches and wealth to the extent that we attract sicknesses and distresses upon ourselves. One Jim Rohn had said as quote: “Money is usually attracted, and not pursued.” We are to do clean businesses which attract riches and wealth instead of pursuing them senselessly. This should be a lesson to a country like Nigeria where every person’s mindsets are to hustle, pursue or amass wealth by stress and struggles. This devotional closes the discussion by referring to the philosophy of Tony Robbins on secret to wealth. Tony Robbins believes that “The secret of wealth simple. He said anyone who wants to be wealthy should: “Fine ways to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Be more. Serve more.”
PRAYER:
Father Almighty, by your might and grace, bestow upon me the concern for helping people as I look up to you for blessings I will seek from above in Jesus name.
bishopubaudenyi@hopealivechurch
