OPEN HEAVENS Devotional – Friday
August 5 2016
TOPIC:
STOLEN BREAD?
Memorize: Bread of deceit is
sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. Proverbs
20:17
Read: Ephesians 4:28,
28 Let him
that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the
thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Bible in one year: 1st Peter
1-4, Psalms 28
MESSAGE
We live in a time when the
nature of man is so selfish that all he does is think about himself
continually. How much can I get? What do I have at stake? Of what interest will
this be to me? This is why you see people transforming the resources meant for
an entire nation into their private coffers. They are happy to collect the
contract amount given for the construction of public roads only to complete
such roads on paper alone. The better ones among them do a bad job and pocket
the rest despite inflating the cost of completion. After all, they will not
drive on such roads. When the Judgement of God comes upon those who do this,
their ends are always terrible. Some of them use such monies to train their
children in the best schools available and such children end up killing them.
Some of them use such money to build estates and such estates become desolate
in the future.
Lazy people look for any
excuse not to work. They want cheap money. They want to live in luxury without
paying the price. This is why you see a lot of value being eroded in the social
system today. People are no longer ready to task their minds. Some people sit
with their computers the whole day, looking for people to defraud. How do you
think you can have an enduring blessing through such means? There are some
market women who use unequal weights in the scale to measure what they sell to
unsuspecting customers. If you do this, it is to your own peril. Such people
will never be blessed by God. Some are involved in fraudulent business practices,
exploiting others for their own gain. They think they are making it at the
moment, but the truth is that such gains bring much sorrow. Lazy people who do
not work will end in poverty because they lack understanding. Those who are
sleeping when they should be working will end up serving those who are
industrious.
“Be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” Galatians 6:7
As long as you choose to
remain lazy, you will never encounter a divine touch, because God himself is
hard working. One of the great virtues that fathers can leave for their
children is a heritage of integrity. There is only one path to true increase
and that is gathering wealth by honest means. It may take a longer time than
you expected, but you can be sure that at the end, you will have peace of mind.
There are things money cannot buy. Money cannot buy happiness and joy and this
is why you need to understand that there is no need to play smart. The little
you earn from what you do legitimately will attract the blessing of God, as
opposed to those who earn millions by fraudulent means. The scripture says;
“Better is the poor that
walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be
rich” Proverbs 28:6
Don’t envy sinners who are prosperous.
It is foolishness to do so because you can easily tell what their end will be.
“Wealth gotten by vanity shall
be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase”, Proverbs 13:11
Those who gather wealth
unjustly are doing so in readiness for devourers. They will never be able to
explain how they spend such money.
Key Point
Whatever you get
non-legitimately cannot last.
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