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Prov 14:24
24 The wealth of the wise is their crown,
but the folly of fools yields folly.
NIV
It would appear in the simplest form this is speaking about how accumulating large amounts of wealth is a wise thing to do and those who do not are fools. It also seems inconceivable God encourages his people to accumulate the wealth of this world to wear it as a crown, displaying it for all to see. But is this wealth is in fact God, and then truly it should be worn as a crown for all to see. Truly wise people seek the wealth of God which is his divine word, his truth, his righteousness. To have the forgiveness of God, to be justified, sanctified and filled with Holy Spirit is wealth beyond anything in this world. It is the fools who refuse such wealth and spend their lives in foolish pursuits of self-importance and self-indulgence thus yielding no true wealth, but just the folly of their own making. It matters not to quantity or the quality of worldly wealth which can be accumulated for death will always separate a person from such wealth. Fools who put their trust in this type of wealth will indeed reap horrible folly when death claims them. It is the wise who will be ushered into the glory of God. It is the man who has taken the wisest path in life who will see the Glorious wealth which awaits him after this life on earth is done. Death cannot claim the wise person as it does the fool. Oh, death where is thy sting? The wise person has untold wealth at his disposal in this life and the one to come for it is only the wise who will step into eternity in the paradise of God. How can anyone think his own foolish ways can gain him that kind of wealth? The only reason it seems to me is they have been deceived by the evil one, or even by their own foolish ideas. They are living within a fool’s paradise, fake, built on falseness and with facades of gold, hiding the real truth. Who is the fool? Who is the wise? The answer is so simple.