November 12: Proverbs 23 4-5

Key Verse: Proverbs 23 5
Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

Devotion:
Seeking earthly riches all the time may well lead to earthly riches, but that is all! Where you set your goal in life is where your focus will be and where you will probably spend all of your energy. What Christ is telling us is we need to focus on the future we have in heaven so our works will most likely follow that path – the one laid out before us by God…

Now there is nothing wrong with making sure you have enough money to live on and even to build up some monetary support for you children (or your parents) because that is looking after your family; but making it your goal in life will detract you from the work God would have you doing in expanding His kingdom and allowing more people to join us in heaven!

The more we lean on our own wisdom, the more we fall short of the mark for God; we need His wisdom in order to achieve the goals He wants us to reach in our lives. As quickly as we build up our riches here on earth they may well disappear or become of no effect. There are countries where it is not worth holding on to money because inflation makes it of little worth by the end of the month or even week! This is the way of the world – what man has built up will only last as long as man lasts…

Have you noticed how your goal for earthly riches keeps on moving the closer you get to it? Despite what others will tell you, the riches we see in our lives do come from God and can be swept away by Him just as quickly as we see them come. If we lose focus on God because of those riches then we may well see them swept away before we can use them to any affect; God is the original source and He would much rather we focus on His riches and not our own!

Points to Ponder:
What are you seeking in life?

Will you set your eyes on God and seek His riches first of all?