The truth about being rich
Imagine you suddenly find $100 million in your bank account (and it's rightfully yours). What would you do with it?
Once you've celebrated, paid off all your debt, bought a couple cars and moved into your new private-island home, what would be next in life?
Ecclesiastes chapter 5 directly addresses this dreamy scenario of finding the rainbowed pot of gold. Here are a few points Solomon makes in verses 10 and 11:
1. Those who love money will never have enough.
2. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!
3. The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it.
4. So what good is wealth—except perhaps to watch it slip through your fingers!
These pithy statements are straight from the New Living Translation. And how true they are!
The main point I want to highlight is in verse 15: "We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can't take our riches with us."
If we can't take it with us, why do we strive for more than we need?
Proverbs 30:8-9 says it so well:
…give me neither poverty nor riches!
Give me just enough to satisfy my needs.
For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, "Who is the Lord?"
And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God's holy name.
Trusting him for just enough,
Tom Harper
Founder, BiblicalLeadership.com
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 | Tom Harper is publisher of BiblicalLeadership.com and executive chairman of Networld Media Group, a business-to-business publisher and event producer. He has written five books, including Servant Leader Strong: Uniting Biblical Wisdom and High-Performance Leadership (DeepWater Books, 2019) as well as the Christian business fable Through Colored Glasses and its sequel Inner Threat (DeepWater, 2022). Learn More » |
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