Overflowing Vats

July 3

Investors desire to place their funds into stocks or bonds that show promise. Nobody in his right mind wants to sock away his resources in an unsafe place. The Bible offers counsel to the man who wishes to store his treasure where it will accrue the most interest on his investment.

In Proverbs 3:9-10 it says, “Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing and your vats will brim over with new wine.” That was quite a promise to the agrarian society of Solomon’s day.

How does it apply to the stock brokers and physicians and attorneys and engineers and business people of today? One thing we know about the Word of God for a certainty—it is ‘yea and amen.’ It never changes. What was applicable to the farmers and merchants and tentmakers of Old Testament times is still true for all of us.

With that foundational point upon which to build our financial future, we proceed to lay brick-by-brick the structure of our economic well being. Though we live in a time when investments are failing, when once wealthy countries are virtually bankrupt, we must honor the Lord with all we have and trust that our vats, too, will overflow.