Did you know that this is a promise from Almighty God to you, IF you will meet the conditions? Proverbs 22:4:
4 The reward of humility and the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
True Biblical humility is accepting something you don't deserve! Jesus accepted the death on the cross even though HE was without sin! He accepted it on our behalf! When we receive Him as Lord and Saviour, we accept something we do not deserve - eternal salvation and adoption as a child of the Living God! Keep an attitude of gratitude for that and maintain a reverence and awe in His presence and HE promises that riches and honor and life WILL result! What about all of those who refuse to humble themselves before God and refuse to honor and reverence Him? Galatians 6:7-8 reveal their reward:
7 Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. 8 For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
So do NOT become discouraged when it APPEARS as though evil and ungodly people are getting away with evil. It will NOT be that way forever. YOU have this promise if you refuse to give up! Galatians 6:9:
9 And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.
God is GOOD, all the time! You can count on it! Here is an older song by Don Moen called "God is Good":
Shalom in Him!
