God Reserves These Treasures for the Ones He is Pleased With
“There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.” (Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 WEB)
All fleshly plotting, striving and toiling is vanity. Worldly wealth never satisfies one’s soul and at the end of this mortal lifetime, it is blown away like sand in the wind.
By today’s standards, King Solomon‘s net worth was more than $2 trillion.
God allowed him to have as much access to the pleasures and luxuries of this world so that he could write the Book of Ecclesiastes and prove this point: spending your life chasing worldly pleasures is a vain pursuit that never satisfies.
If Jesus is your Lord, God is pleased with you and will transfer the wealth that sinners (unbelievers) gather up into your hand. You don’t have to focus on it.
We need provision to survive, but it’s not something that you need to toil for. God will use His connections to direct provision to you, just like He brought the silver coin to Peter in the fish’s mouth.
Some are so afraid of losing money, and others are so greedy and focused on hoarding more of it. The love of money is idolatry and is a root of all kinds of evil. Fleshly longings to get rich pierces a soul with many sorrows.
God says that His wisdom, knowledge and joy are far more precious treasures, reserved for His children. Sinners cannot comprehend nor appreciate these.
To a sinner, these are useless because it cannot be perceived or verified by sight, and have to be partaken by faith.
God has given you the ability to eat and drink, to enjoy the fruit of your labor. Let your soul be satisfied in that. Ask Him to add more godly wisdom, knowledge and joy to you. He is especially pleased when you prioritize what He prioritizes!
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