Wealth & Riches

The true meaning of wealth and riches is often misconstrued and wrongfully interpreted or is not fully expressed. Wealth means having enough, high value and an abundance of material possessions and resources. Riches means large amounts of money and possessions or good things that are available to use or choose.

As with many things in this world, we choose to see and gravitate to those things that will pleasure and please us and leave the most important things out. God is so good that He allows us the choice to choose. Nevertheless, we choose to overlook what will cause us to look inward to make the necessary changes for our lives. We have become so focused on the outside that we totally forget about the inside and still end up unhappy. What is it that we have to do? How do obtain wealth and riches and yet stay grounded?

In Psalm 112, it speaks of this very thing and the answer is easy to all of our questions in how to obtain wealth and riches and it starts in the very first verse. It says, "Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments." God doesn't want us to be afraid of Him. That is not what He is saying at all. What He is saying is that, He wants us to reverence Him. We spend all of our time trying to do better, to better ourselves and have a better life without following what His word says to do which in the end will hurt us more than we thought it was helping. We cannot forget that the Lord is the one who blesses us. Everything great that we are is because of Him. He designed us in such a fashion that it upsets the devil. He designed us to praise Him (which the devil wants). He designed us to worship Him (which the devil wants). He designed us to live the kingdom life here on earth (which the devil wants dominion). He designed us to live and not die (which the devil wants to take away from us). Let him that steals, steal no more. Let him that deceives, deceive no more. Take the time to learn God's commandments so you can become greatly delighted in them. Take the time to reverence the Lord in worship and in your living. When you do this, it is then true wealth and riches will be opened up to you.

I cannot talk about receiving wealth and riches and not mention motives. Do not think for one second that you think this is a "secret path" to gaining riches and wealth. As long as your motives to fear Him, to know Him and to delight greatly in His commandments are not pure, you will not prosper in whatever it is you seek. No, we have to do this, not to gain wealth and riches but to gain the ONE who is rich and wealthy. It's like the story says, "He who accepts the Son gets everything." Fall in love with the Lord. That is one thing I can promise and guarantee you; is if you take the time to invest in your relationship with the Lord and with a pure heart (no strings attached), you won't be able to help but to fall in love with Him and it will be the best thing you've ever done in your life.

I have come to realization that it's not always about having the most of everything but instead it's making the most of everything. It's not about having the abundance of possessions but instead possessing the abundance of who the Father is. There is nothing wrong with abundance or having nice things but it becomes wrong when it's all of who we are.He should be included in every area of our lives. That is the way we show Him honor. Delighting greatly in His commandments is rejoicing that He cares enough to give us directions and rules so we can live a fruitful life. His Word is full of life and to delight in it is to follow it. Take a minute to think about what or who you're following. If your life or delights are in something other than the LORD then it's time to make a change.

Fear the LORD. Delight in HIS commandments. Then watch true wealth and riches befall you. Blessings!