Psalms 112 Is the Roadmap to Life’s Success
God has given us the roadmap to success for now and eternity and not just for us, but for our children and our posterity in Psalms 112.
In a distorted way, to obtain success, this world is sacrificing their lives, souls and the lives and souls of their families on this perverted alter. By going after riches and fame according to a warped and fallen world system, rather than according to the promised and proven way of God. To seek God and His kingdom ways of loving one another, and forgiving others as He has forgiven us and to allow the Holy Spirit, that lives in us, to love, edify and to build up others.
Psalm 112:1-3 Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, Who delights greatly in His commandments. His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth and riches will be in his house,And his righteousness endures forever. NKJ
In Psalms 112 we are to praise God; that is to celebrate and give glory to God and in that we are blessed. To be bless is to be happy with abundance and with nothing lacking (not only now but for eternity). This is for the person who fears the Lord; that is to be in awe of God, with great respect for God, and to be more concerned about God’s word, as opposed to those people and things around them.
Fear is a result of the fall of mankind’s disobedience, but God has used it as part of a safety mechanism for us, that is to warn us of danger that we should avoid. God is not narcissistic, He does not want people to quake or be in fear of Him just for the sake of His ego, but it is for their protection and wellbeing.
Just as in nature we are given the instinct and reflex to flee when we are in fear or in danger, we are to have that same reverence for God and His word. If we feared God more and gave greater thought and consideration to the outcome, the aftereffect or the consequences of our sinful actions, we would most likely make better choices. Sin can be pleasurable and enticing, that is how the enemy lures us into that trap, but this pleasure is very short lived and just for a while. If we feared and reverence God more, then we would flee those things that are contrary to God’s word out of reverence, admiration, worship and devotion to our God.
Hebrews 11:24-26 By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.NKJ
Psalms 112 tells us that we are to delight greatly in His word and His commandment, and that one commandment is for us to love one another as He has loved us. We are to delight in God; that is to have a high degree of enjoyment and pleasure in Him, to desire and be pleased with Him and to favor God above others. It is only when we take our eyes and focus off ourselves and place it on the goodness of God that we can delight in Him. We can be delighted when we think about God’s goodness, His great compassion, forgiveness and His abundant grace, that He has bestowed and given to us. When we think on these thingswe can be extremely delighted, tremendously happy and exceedingly elated about God and all He has done and is doing in our lives and our families and this can truly bring us great joy.
John 15:11-12 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. NKJ
In Psalms 112, the people who praise and celebrate God for His goodness and mercy and live in awe, reverence and respect for God by choosing to obey His word, they are the ones who have great delight, joy and pleasure in their love and their relationship with God. Their descendants will be mighty on earth, because these people in their generation chose to lived an upright and honest life of integrity so that they and their children will be blessed and be mighty on the earth.
Isaiah 54:13-14 All your children shall be taught by the Lord,And great shall be the peace of your children. In righteousness you shall be established; You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; And from terror, for it shall not come near you.
In Psalms 112 God has promised wealth and riches will be in the house of those that delight greatly in God and teach their children, their righteousness will endure forever. But, to those who hate God and refuses His provision of salvation, which is by the blood of Christ, they will receive the consequences of their own choices and actions. This is why all humanity should stand in awe, respect and in fear of God’s word, because it is a two-edge sword. On one side there are promises of wealth, riches and generational blessings and on the other side there is a promise to destroy those who hate Him and refuse His provision that was provided in Jesus Christ. God will not allow the guilty to go unpunished.
Deuteronomy 7: 9-11 “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
Exodus 34:6-7 And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
When God passed by Moses in the cleft of the rock, God proclaimed His Character and who He is. He is the Lord, the Lord God, the merciful God, the gracious God, Thelongsuffering God, the One who abounds and overflows in goodness and truth. God does not punish us to the extent that we deserve because of His mercy. God is gracious in that He paid our sin debt and provided salvation through the precious blood of Jesus Christ. God is longsuffering in that He waits a long time to give every person every opportunity to receive His goodness and truth by faith in Christ. God extends His mercy to thousands by forgiving their sins, iniquities and transgression to all those who by faith receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.
God will not allow the guilty, those who refuse His provision of salvation, to go unpunished. The propensity, exposure andweakness toward sin is passed down from one generation to the next, until someone takes a stand and makes the decision to come to God through faith in Christ. By this they can change their entire life course and trajectory for themselves and the generations that follows. God gives every person the ability to choose for themselves, their posterity, and their future generations, whether to be the receiver of life or death orblessings or curses.
Deuteronomy 11:26-28 “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;
In Psalms 112 God gives us a roadmap to a successful life for us and our children. It is knowing the love of the one true God and teaching our children His ways. This is so that we and our children and our posterity will be blessed and established in God’s love and righteousness in the earth.
God has told us through His word in Psalms 112 how this is to be done. We areto reverence, respect, fear and obey God’s word and when we delight and get great pleasure in knowing God’s love and showing the love of God to others, we will have great wealth.Our wealth will be more than sufficient for our necessary needs,and these riches, treasures and assets are not just of this world only, but for eternity.
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