Posts Tagged riches
A Poverb a Day: Proverbs 8:10-11 Nothing you desire can be compared with it.
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Crime, Education, Family, Inspirational, Money on November 8, 2010
“Choose my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge over pure gold. For wisdom is far more valuable than rubies. Nothing you desire can be compared with it.” -Proverbs 8:10-11
If I could get all the youth of the world to understand these words and apply them, education would not be an issue. Bullying would cease to be a national discussion topic, and the crisis of our urban communities would slowly vanish away.
The reason I speak about the youth, and I mean ages 6-12, is because people are constantly telling me to write off any body that is a teenager or older, because they are a lost cause. I don’t want to believe it, and I am truly an optimist, but the more I live and the more I see, the more those nay-sayers are becoming true.
So what are we to do? What are we to say to our youth or better yet, everyone? I believe we need to encourage all who live and breath to read and understand, and then apply these words of wisdom. Why? Because all the people I know are tying to obtain a piece of what’s in verse 18.
Verse 18 says, “Unending riches, honor, wealth, and justice are mine to distribute.”
Be wise.
A Proverb A Day: Proverbs 27:23 Do you know where you stand? Financially?
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Education, Family, Money on August 27, 2010
Proverbs 27:23 state, “Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.”
Reading this proverb helps me to understand the necessity of knowing my financial status in this life I live. To know my balance sheet.
Too many times the majority of people step out into this world trying to keep up with Joneses, and we do so to our own peril. Do you know the state of your flocks? Your accounts, your means of income? You herds? How are they doing? Are you sitting well? Or are things looking bad?
No matter where you’re sitting the wise man still looks and takes account. The verse that follows says this: “For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endureth to every generation?”
Be wise.
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