I don’t often get spiritual insights while watching the news, but one story that aired a few years back really fired up my faith. It was about a truck the police had stopped for a traffic violation. For some reason, after they pulled the truck over, the police got suspicious and decided to check out its cargo. What they found was a shocker.
The truck was filled with money—bundles of it—stacked from floor to ceiling!
People don’t usually haul their money around in trucks, even if they have a lot of it. So, something fishy was obviously going on. My guess was it had something to do with drugs. But whatever its origin, that money was clearly up to no good.
Looking at the piles of cash in that truck I suddenly remembered Proverbs 13:22. It says, “The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.”
Think about all the money in this world that’s been gained by wicked men in ungodly ways. Stolen money. Money gained by selling illegal substances and exploiting vulnerable people. Money that in many cases can’t even be deposited in banks so it’s been buried or hidden somewhere.
God said that money will come to the just!
Who are the just? Those of us who live by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 1:17). Those of us who are walking with Him and obeying His Word. We are the just, and we need to start standing by faith on Proverbs 13:22. We need to get with God’s wealth-transfer program!
We don’t have any more time to waste. Jesus is coming soon, and He is not coming for a broke Church. He’s coming for a glorious Church…and the gold and the glory go together!
The Bible confirms this from Genesis to Revelation. It says, for example, in the beginning, when Adam walked in the glory of God in the Garden of Eden, there was gold there, and the gold of that land was good. It says that God’s man of faith, Abraham, was “very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.” That when the Israelites came out of Egypt, led by the cloud of His glory, “He brought them forth also with silver and gold…” (Genesis 2:11-12,13:2; Psalm 105:37).
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