Blessed Riches - Proverbs 10:22

It is the blessing of the LORD that makes rich, And He adds no sorrow to it. 
​Proverbs 10:22

There is a wrong view of wealth that says that God does not bless men with wealth - therefore if anyone has it - they have it due to sin.  This is contrary to what we see written in the Scriptures.  God does make men wealthy.  He blesses some men with the ability to accumulate and make a great deal of wealth. 

Eccleiastes 5:18-19 says the following, "Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one's labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.  Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God."  God grants people the ability to receive great wealth from His hand - and also grants to them the ability to enjoy it.  This is truly a wonderful gift.  It is also what our proverb today is telling us from the Lord.  It IS the blessing of Jehovah that makes a man rich, and when God grants this - there is also no sorrow with it.

There is often great sorrow that attends the rich men of this world - who have put their hope in these riches - rather than in the Lord.  These men do not enjoy their riches - because that is all that they are living for.  Paul warned young Timothy to beward of living for riches - because when a man loves money - he pierces himself with MANY sorrows.  Not only this, but when a man sets his heart on wealth - it is as if wealth takes up wings and flys toward the heavens.  This is the malady that strikes those who think if they could just get a little more they would be happy.  You see the folly of this when you see men who are billionaires who are not satisfied with their wealth - but struggle and strive to become even richer.  Their lives are consumed by their wealth - and even as the Scriptures tell us - their sleep flies away from them because they cannot stop thinking about their money and how they will continue to protect it. 

God does bless some with wealth.  But we know those when we se that there is no sorrow that comes with it.  They are happy - and do not allow wealth or riches to consume their thinking.  They even use their wealth to bless God and to expand the work of the kingdom here on earth.  Therefore they are among the blessed whom God has given riches - and the ability to enjoy them and use them without harm to themselves.  If you are one of these people - fall on your knees and thank God - for their numbers are few indeed.