Title
It Is In the Earth, It Is In You
Scripture
There is gold and a multitude of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
(Proverbs 20:15)
Devotional
Don’t you just love the Proverbs? Each is filled with manifold wisdom and knowledge. The message here is at least two-fold. First of all, the world contains all the wealth we need. This earth is filled with potential. God has supplied all the riches needed for His creation. Like a field ready to be harvested, success is there for the picking. Furthermore, our text tells us that we, God’s people, contain greater value than the riches of the world. When we acquire the knowledge of God and the ways of God, we have greater riches than the gold and rubies of the earth. We do not contain semiprecious jewels, but precious ones.
As all the riches of the world are in the earth, all the riches we need can be found in us. Listen carefully to Colossians 1:27, “God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery . . . which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”(1)
(1) Colossians 1:27
Text For The Day
text for the day: Proverbs 20:15: There is gold and a multitude of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Thought For The Day
“Christians can have no truck with some of the more extreme deep ecologists, or dark Greens, to be found in the United States and very occasionally in Britain, who see humans as a blight on our planet and who worship wild nature. For Christians respect for nature comes as an adjunct to rather than a substitute for respect for humans.” Ian Bradley, God Is Green: Ecology for Christians. Christianity Today
Questions To Ponder
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Can mankind destroy that which God has designed to last until He comes and establishes His eternal kingdom?
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Is the earth as fragile as many who are concerned with the environment say?
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Is there a lack or shortage of any substance necessary to sustain a good life?
Morning Study Guide
Defining: “Wealth”: That which God has created and is more than sufficient to sustain the prosperity He has intended for His creation. Man does not create wealth; it can only be discovered.
Referencing: “Much food is in the fallow (uncultivated) ground of the poor, and for lack of justice there is waste,” Proverbs 13:23.
Applying: Remember, all the wealth that you need is in the earth and it is in you waiting to be discovered.