The Essential Step to the Wealth and Riches (of God)

The essential step to God's wealth, or as the Hebrew more directly puts it in Lamentations 2.14, to having our captivity turned away, to restoring our fortunes, is having our sin exposed. Sin and success are mutually incompatible in God's design. We cannot have both. This is the blessing of having our sin exposed.

Giving to God What is Due

Moses clearly explains to the Israelites in Deut 8.17, that success, wealth, and by inference, talent and opportunity, come from God. They (and we) ought to be very careful that, when they became successful, they not sit back and pat themselves on the back and say, "look what an incredible person I am." Unfortunately, the human tendency is to do just that.