The Prompt For Today: Profit @mariannewest
The first thing of the Bible that is popular about profit is this saying of Jesus in Matt 16:26
For what is a man [profited]. if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
This saying always keep me wondering because of the verse before it which say:
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. Matt 16: 25
But Psalms 49:6,7 & 10 explained it
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Message: Life on Earth is all about profit and lost,
This both word "profit" and "lost" must play one role In your success and failure,
I understand that to save your life in Christ and enter his kingdom you must lose (e.g. all lustful pleasure of earth, unrighteous riches et.c) before profit.
MORE REVIEW OF PROFIT HERE ON EARTH FROM ECCLESIASTES
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Eccl 1:3
The writer of this book came to
Eccl 2:11 and express himself about his understand of labour and profit.
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun
After reading this passage, I thought of death and how it useless our long years of labour,
The writer of this book, continued on profit on Earth explaining it from birth to death eccl 5:15 & 16:
As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
Message: if you read this passages carefully you will see that first verse was a Question, and the following verses was answers to the question.
My dear, have you thought of what exactly will profit you here Earth.?
As for me, I have. This was what I came up with:
In everything you do on Earth, do it righteously, you can achieve this by seeking first our Lord's Kingdom Matt 6:13
You are here on Earth to profit your life to externality in God's kingdom.
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