Posted on 09/15/2019 7:24:25 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble” (Proverbs 15:6).
“In the house of the righteous is much treasure,” Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you” (John 14:2). Some of the fake Bibles say, “In my father’s house are many rooms,” no way! I’m going to live in a mansion, Amen!
“I'm satisfied with just a cottage below, A little silver and a little gold; But in that city where the ransomed will shine, I want a gold one that's silver-lined. I want a mansion, a harp and a crown.
I've got a mansion just over the hilltop! Don’t let some Bible scholar steal your mansion. There may be rooms where they are going, but where we’re going are mansions!
By the way, that was my dear late wife’s favorite hymn, “Mansion Over the Hilltop,” and whenever I hear it my memory takes me back to a place where I can clearly hear her singing her part as she stood next to me. It is also one of my favorite hymns, if not a sad one now for the memories it invokes.
“In the house of the righteous is much treasure,” Christ said, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:21). When a person’s heart is consumed with the things of earth, when his whole life is contained in the things that he can accumulate down here, he won’t be interested about heaven for himself, or for others. When you heart is set on things up there, you want to go and you want to see other folks go with you. You realize that things down here are not where everything is.
“. . . but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble,” their treasures come from and come with trouble and hard times. They can’t take it with them, and they can’t buy their way out of hell with it—it is just trouble.
Let’s read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let’s keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread!
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