“The law of Thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver” (v.72). Can we honestly say that we would rather have God’s Word then money?

Many people in the Bible had that testimony. For example, Abraham led his army to a great victory. He brought back all of the captives and all the spoil. The king of Sodom showed up and said, “Abraham, you can have all this spoil. Just give me the people.” But Abraham said, “Before this battle started, I lifted my hand to the Lord and said, ‘When I win this battle, I am not taking one thing from these people.’ I would rather have the Word of God then have thousands of shackles of gold and silver” (See Gen.14). Abraham kept his testimony clean.

But I also think of Achan in Joshua 7. God had commanded that No spoil be taken from Jericho. But Achan stole some silver and gold, and buried them under his tent. Achan wanted riches rather than God. Judas made the same mistake. He sold Jesus Christ, the greatest Treasure in the universe, for 30 pieces of silver.

If we love the Word of God, we will read it, meditate on it and seek to obey it. If the Bible does not change our values, it will not change our lives. Jesus was the poorest of the poor. He made Himself poor to make us rich. We, in turn, should make ourselves poor to make other people which, for we have the riches of the Word of God.

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You have a choice to make today: you can seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, or you can bow down to the kingdom of man and seek riches.