Wealth as a platform for wisdom. May 12th, 2025. What does it mean to be wise concerning your wealth?

What is wealth wisdom exactly? As with everything else, the fear of God is the beginning

of knowledge in this area also. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1.7.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of financial knowledge, not just generic knowledge.

Serve God, fear him, read His Word, read His Word with an absolute willingness to accept whatever it says. The Lord has the right

to deal with you, and with anybody else, in accordance with His holy wisdom. He might require that

you give it all away, as he did with a rich young ruler, Mark 1021. He might require that you give

half of it away, as he accepted in the example of Zekees, Luke 198. Or, and this is the really tough one,

he might require a grim pietist to eat the fat and drink the sweet. Yamaya 810. He is the

Lord, and we should follow as he leads. So what follows is not the same thing as being willing to receive

the word, but only so long as it doesn't make you sound like one of those health and wealth guys.

Yeah, they have their problems, but so also do those crab people who have an allergic reaction

to anything that sounds like God might ever want to bless any of his children in our material

things. Through wisdom is in house-builted, and by understanding it is established, and by knowledge

shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

Proverbs 24, 3 and 4.

The power to gain wealth with understanding is a gift from God.

We must never abuse it, most certainly not.

But whatever material possessions you have, and if you are alive, you have some, you need to have the blessing of God on those material blessings. And if you need to have

that blessing, you should most certainly seek that blessing. The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich,

and he addeth no sorrow with it. Proverbs 1022. A man can have $10 and have sorrow added to it.

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