Saturday January 20th, 2024
« A false balance and dishonest business practices are extremely offensive to the LORD, But an accurate scale is His delight »
1 The Lord hates anyone who cheats, but He likes everyone who is honest.
2 Too much pride can put you to shame. It’s wiser to be humble.
3 If you do the right thing, honesty will be your guide. But if you are crooked, you will be trapped by your own dishonesty.
4 When God is angry, money won’t help you. Obeying God is the only way to be saved from death.
Profiteering- the act of making excessive and unfair profit usually through illegal means is considered as wickedness before God.
Profiteering involves taking undue advantage of others.
You may not know the havoc you are wreaking on humanity until God opens your eyes to see that both the services and goods you are charging exorbitantly for are not affordable by those who need them for survival.
Many people profiteer because they want to make excessive profits and enrich themselves with worldly possessions.
They have lost sight of Proverbs 13:11AMB which says
« Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles, But whoever gathers gradually by [honest] labor will increase [his riches] »
Proverbs 13:22 NAB also says
« ….the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just »
It is tantamount to slavery when people work for you and you deny them their wages or tactically delay their pay.
God will punish such people because they have been unfaithful. James 5:4 ISV says
« Look! The wages that you kept back from the workers who harvested your fields are shouting out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies ‘Jehovah Sabaoth’»
The Scripture above expresses the mind of God about profiteering.
Consider the lives of those who have gathered wealth illegally just to leave an inheritance for their children.
In many cases, even in their lifetime, their children sell property bought with these looted funds to the children of those they have defrauded.
We have heard the stories of children of laborers purchasing the property of their fathers’ masters when the Lord of Sabaoth caused wealth to change hands.
Truly, the treasures of wickedness will never bring profit (Proverbs 10:2).
Beloved, remember the words of our Lord Jesus in Luke 12:15 and be wise.
Wealth does not guarantee satisfaction, joy, peace and security.
It is foolishness to run after wealth mindlessly.
Godliness with contentment is what brings great gain (1 Timothy 6:6).
Prayer focus -Father, please deliver my soul from greed. Let me never chase after uncertain riches, in the mighty name of Jesus.
Author – Bishop Enoch. A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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