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20 The Fool’s Dozen
in slippery places. They are cast down into destruction and they
are “utterly consumed with terrors” (verse 19).
Someone can accumulate a vast amount of money and experience
the wealth of the world, but without God that wealth
will help to destroy him.
Why? Look at Proverbs 1:28-32 and you’ll find out. There,
Solomon describes what will happen to those who take the
worldly road to riches.
Then shall they call upon me [wisdom], but I will not
answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find
me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose
the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel:
they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of
the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own
devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay
them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Read that last phrase again and let it sink in. “The prosperity
of fools shall destroy them.”
That principle holds true for believers and unbelievers
alike. In fact, a few years ago, there were some believers who
found out about God’s principles of prosperity. They followed
them and believed God and, sure enough, He prospered them.
But many of them are in worse financial condition today than
they’ve ever been in before, because they used the increase God
gave them as a base with which to borrow more money. They
bought their way into debt, and they never did anything about
helping the poor or giving into the ministry. They are worse off
now than when they heard the Word that prospered them.
Does that mean you too should avoid being prosperous?
No! It means you should avoid being a fool!