You're Better Off With It

Proverbs 16:8
Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

God's Word is so deep sometimes with truth but so shallow sometimes that even the youngest person can understand it. Do you know what is the hardest thing to convince people of? That they don't need something they want.

When someone's mind is set on something that they want it's almost impossible to get them to think of anything else. Let me use myself as an example. I love musical instruments. When I see one that I really like, then my like turns into a need. I'll usually say, "Patti, I like that guitar." Then a day, sometimes a moment later, I'll say, "You know I could use that guitar. I need it." I don't even have to tell you of her response. Before long I can't get the guitar off of my mind. I begin to think of cutting back on meals to have the money. Bologna and cereal aren't that bad right? I'm consumed by what I want.

While that example may be on a smaller scale the principle is still the same. Many, many people (even professing Christians) have sold out to their wants. The Bible tells us that just a little with righteousness is better than great revenues or riches without right. Some will allow their desires for what they want in life to override their walk with Christ and bring them into sin. The Bible is filled with stories of men and women who allowed their desires for great revenues to bring them into sin and its destruction.

Listen to God this morning as He is telling us, "You're better off with it." My parents used to say, "Son, you're better off without that..." Which is absolutely right! I'm better off without the riches this world can offer me. But I love how God used the scriptures to show me the same lesson with a greater meaning. I'm better off with it! I'm blessed to have little with righteousness than to own the whole world through sin. I love being the poorest rich man!