What is your view on worldly wealth and riches? The world view is that life is about accumulating more wealth for yourself. People who are able to accumulate more wealth for themselves here on earth are celebrated. In the biblical view, wealth accumulated on earth is temporal, instead, we need to strive for heavenly wealth or riches which are permanent. Heavenly riches are accumulated through spiritual investment in Godly things. You invest in heavenly riches by worshiping and serving God.
Accumulating earthly riches by manipulating and abusing other people is a disaster, as the punishment awaits you on the day of judgment. The evil, abuse, manipulations you commit while you accumulate the riches are recorded in the heavenly books and will be brought to you on the days of judgment. Don’t celebrate the success you are achieving while other people are crying in pain because of the evil you do to them. Instead, you should come back to God with tears, repent from your sins, and you will be forgiven.
See what the scriptures say in
James 5:1-6 ESV (1) “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. (2) Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. (3) Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. (4) Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. (5) You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. (6) You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.”
*Don’t celebrate riches accumulated through manipulations*.
From Simtandile Dlepuma.
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