PROVERBS 16:8
“Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.”
Better is a little in right standing with God through His Son Jesus Christ, than great revenues without right. It’s better to have a little with right standing than having great revenue through unjust gain; because a man’s life does consist of what he possesses.
It’s important that you live your life in righteousness, refusing to be lured into unrighteousness through unjust gains. So don't admire their revenues from unjust gains.
Proverbs 15 verse 16 has this to say. It says:
“Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.”
It’s better to have a little with the fear of the LORD, than having great revenue with all kinds of problems associated with it; for he that is greedy of gain will certainly trouble his own house.
So, …
Don’t be greedy of gain.
Don’t go all out of your way to make unjust gain. It’s better to have a little with righteousness than having plenty in unrighteousness.
Psalm 37 verse 16 says:
“A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.”
So, get this wisdom that the little you have in righteousness is better than the riches of many wicked people.
So, don’t admire their unjust gains. Remain contented with what you have; for ‘godliness with contentment is great gain.’ For we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing away. We take nothing out of this world. As you came, that’s how you will go.
And that’s why the Scripture encourages us in that 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 8. It says:
“And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.”
Verse 9: “But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.”
When you desire to become rich without right standing with God, you will ensnare yourself, and you will end up hurting yourself. And you may end up in destruction and perdition.
So, ‘Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right standing with God through His Son Jesus Christ.
Learn to remain the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
Learn to be contented with what you have.
For Proverbs 15 verse 27 says:
“He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.”
Don’t trouble your life.
Don’t trouble your own house by being greedy of gain.
Learn to be contented with what you have.
For … “A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.” [Ref: Proverbs 28:20].
So, don’t make haste to be rich. Don’t desire to be like the wicked and you begin to walk in their ways; for when you make haste to be rich you will not be innocent.
There will always be unrighteousness in that situation. So, don’t expose yourself to walk in that way.
For “Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.”
“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? … What will a man give in exchange for his own soul?” NOTHING!
So, it’s better to have little in righteousness, than great gain, great revenue that will lead you to destruction. For the
Scripture says in Proverbs chapter 13 verse 11:
“Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.”
Wealth gotten by vanity will lead you to destruction. You will be condemned in it eventually; because it will become a witness against you at the day of judgment.
Proverbs 21 from verse 6 says this:
“The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.”
So, when you are busy getting unjust gain by lying, you are seeking death; because at the end you will not be innocent.
That’s why he continued in that Proverbs chapter 21 verse 7. It says:
“The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.”
Don’t be a wicked man that will rob your neighbours that which belongs to them, either through usury or manipulations.
As the Scripture tells us in Proverbs 28 verse 8, that …
“He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.”
“Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.”
Get wisdom; get understanding! For it doesn’t matter how you unrighteously accumulate that gain, it will not profit you at the end.
Jeremiah chapter 17 verse 11 says:
“As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.”
LISTEN:
Don’t be a fool gathering unjust gains; … at the end, you will not enjoy it. That makes you a fool.
Don’t labour to be rich. Labour in the word of God, so that when God blesses you with His blessings of richness, of prosperity, you will know how to use it; and at the same time, you will also know how not to work to be rich but rather to work to remain in righteousness. Because God knows how to prosper you, even as your soul prospereth.
So, “Better is a little in righteousness than great revenues without right.”
Don’t press unnecessarily to become rich. Because when you press unnecessarily to become rich, you may find yourself doing the wrong things and not yielding to the obedience to the word of God.
For ‘woe is he that increaseth that which is not his.’ [Ref: Habakkuk 2:6].
When you through unrighteousness make unjust gain, woe will follow you. “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” [Ref: 1 Timothy 6:10].
HEAR THIS:
Don't love money.
Love the Lord thy God with all your heart, with all your strength and with all your mind; and love your neighbour as yourself.
When you love your neighbour as yourself :...
you will not practice usury;
you will not make gain unjustly from your neighbour.
“Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.”
James chapter 5 verse 1 tells us this. It says:
“Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.”
Verse 2: “Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.”
Verse 3: “Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.”
Verse 4: “Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.”
Verse 5: “Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.”
Verse 6: “Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.”
KNOW IT:
This is the state of somebody who has gotten great revenues without right. The gold and the silver he has gotten, shall be a witness against him on that day of judgement.
So, I Encourage You: …
Get this wisdom! that “Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.”
And as you get this wisdom, remain blessed in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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