Faithful

DEVOTION

PROVERBS

FAITHFUL

Prov 28:20

20 A faithful man will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.

NIV

This is not much different than the day before. This eagerness to get rich might be a prevailing ambition of many people. We have been programmed from early life to succeed in whatever we do. As of late there are more and more advertisements about wealth management. Sometimes it seems the advertising is more about the accumulation of wealth then spending money on stuff. One local radio show has a person who talks for two hours every day, and his show must be syndicated, about how to keep more of your money. Yet, here we are, the believer, caught in the middle of society, living among those who are eager to get rich and we must somehow see that as the opposite of being faithful. That is the point of this proverb. Faithful on one hand and eager to get rich on the other. Again it is an either/or and not a both/and. So being faithful has to be not just the best, but the only, attitude we must approach life with. We have to see the foolishness of chasing the rainbow of wealth. That system of living will not go unpunished. Again it comes down to not being about to serve two masters. So let us be faithful.