The Right Wages

PRO 22:4 NIV

Humility is the fear of the Lord ; its wages are riches and honor and life.

Just as we established two days ago, there's no true life outside of life itself. We see life from the myopic point of view of a world that is empty of meaning, direction and true flavour. We have allowed the world without True life to determine how our lives should be lived. We forget that popular adage that says: ' You cannot give what you don't have.' A world without true life can never tell you or show you or lead you to the true life, since it does not even know the way.

But there's a way to get there: it is the way of humility. Our extract today defines humility as the fear of the Lord. It seems to me that If a man claims He fears or knows God, it is seen in his attitude, conduct and conversation. Everything He does is done with a heart that is totally submitted to God and his will, ready to obey without question, and humble enough to be led by God, even into unfamiliar territories. Am I that person, or does God have to bang me on the head for him to catch my attention? Am I so far gone, that I have to be for forcibly humbled for me to acknowledge God in my life?

These are pertinent questions we must answer, If our lives are to have the impact they were created to have. Funnily enough, just as it is in the physical realm, so is it in the spiritual. Men work for Wages and salaries and what you get is based on what you do or for how long you work. God also rewards us for what we do, but for him, He places more emphasis on your motives for working, not on your work itself. In the first place, you canf determine the outcome of your actions; you can only ensure you are working for God with the right heart of humility. He is the One who will reward accordingly and his Wages are both earthly and eternal, as seen in the wages specified. Riches and honour are for this life and true  life itself is the crowning reward.

Are you working for the True Life Himself or are you working to improve your own life? Can your present wages pay your way to eternal life? He has shown you, o man, what is expected of you. Choose life, live right, be humble and totally submissive to God, then watch him do wonders with a totally surrendered life.  His time of favour is here.