—riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Proverbs 23:5
The Bible warns that money is as transient as a bird on the wing. Proverbs 27:24 says that riches are not forever, and Ecclesiastes 5:14 warns that wealth can easily perish through misfortune. Paul warned us not to trust in wealth, which is so uncertain (1 Timothy 6:17).
If you’ve suffered financial loss, it might help to remember that sometimes monetary pressures are like winds pushing us onto the shores of God’s faithfulness. You can stand on the Solid Rock without a penny in your pocket, without a dollar in your account, without a crumb in your pantry. We can’t effectively insure ourselves against financial ruin–there are no truly safe investments–and who knows what the future will hold?
There is one thing we know for certain–there will never be a run on heaven’s banks. He tells us to be unshaken and unafraid. He’ll provide in His own time and way, and we can trust Him with all our needs. He who spared not His own Son but freely gave Him for us all, how will He not also give us all things we need? (From Turning Point)
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
