Does Money Make You A Better Person?
Thursday's Devotion (4-15-04)
"Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich." Proverbs 28:6 (KJV)
Many people think that their money, makes them better than everyone else. They think that just because they have money, they should have first priority in everything. Poor people die everyday, because the rich man will not help them out. Does it make someone better because they're rich? No! A person who is rich and lets another man die without food or whatever, is really not better than anyone. A poor man who walks upright is better than any rich man, who walks in perverse ways. People think that they can buy their way into Heaven. Well guess again! The poor man who walks uprightly, will make it into God's Kingdom, but the rich man who helps no one and is perverse will not make it into God's Kingdom!
God's Kingdom, doesn't go to those who have riches on the outside. It goes to those who have riches on the inside. A poor man on the outside, may be very rich on the inside. If you have Jesus, love and uprightness in your heart, then you're more rich on the inside than a rich perverse person, could ever be!
If you're rich, don't judge the guy next to you by his appearance. Don't judge him because his car is in bad shape or because his clothes are ripped. Talk to him, help him out and find out what kind of person he really is! He may be richer than you! If uprightness makes you better than a rich perverse person, then uprightness is better than money! Seek to be upright and not rich and perverse.
Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this message and for all things. Please forgive us of all our sins and we forgive all those who've wronged us. Please help us to be upright in heart. Help us to seek you and not earthly riches. Please bring us very close to you. In Jesus, name. A-men!
God bless!
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