GOD GIVES YOU ABILITY TO GET RICH

A Bible Devotion

Friday, January 26, 2007

God Gives You Ability To Get Rich

DEUTERONOMY 8:18 ICB 8 But remember the Lord your God! It is he who gives you the power to become rich. He keeps the agreement he promised to your ancestors. So it is today.
I don't want to sound critical, but I have heard so many preach using this verse that God wants to prosper His people for one sole purpose: so that we can give the money to God so He can afford to proclaim the Gospel to all the world. But I just don't buy it.
I do believe that God desires for His people to be givers. Being selfish is the worst thing you can do. And it is true that usually the biggest enjoyment you can get from something is to give it away to someone thrilled with it.
But surely God is not waiting around to go ahead with His operation till we get enough money to finance Him. And surely God is not worse than a normal earthly parent. What earthly parent would give their children some toys on Christmas, then tell them that the ONLY reason they were given those gifts is so they could give them away to the neighbor kids?
I already said that God does not desire selfishness. If you are not a giver, you are not in God's will for you. But God does not give you things just to require you to give them all to someone else.
Deuteronomy 8:18 is simple: it is saying that God is the One making you rich , and He is doing it because He had said that He would -- not because we deserve it!
I especially like: 1 TIMOTHY 6:17 NKJ 17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
God is not the kind of being who will make you just barely scrape by -- He gives RICHLY all things to ENJOY. God gives to us because He enjoys it and because He keeps His word!
SAY THIS: I trust in the living God, Who gives me richly all things to enjoy. He gives me the power to prosper because He said He would.

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