Building

The Million Dollar Life

By William M. Self, Sr.

 

Wisdom, Understanding and Knowledge

Are greater than silver and gold

What are you building with?

 

Building

I have always loved to make things.

I love to build.

It seems like everything I ever

 built took every penny I had.

Every project was limited to the money

 and resources I could come up with.

When we built our house, I spent everything

I could come up with and thought I

might have to sell it the first month.

I need a pole barn and counting

the cost is keeping me from building.

I wonder what I would have built in my

 life if I had been a multimillionaire.

If you were a multimillionaire, what

would you have built, or would you build?

Money seems to be my limitation to the architectural dreams.

  

But money is not what limits you and I. 

Think about this…

 “By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations,

by understanding he set the heavens in place;

by his knowledge the deeps were divided,

and the clouds let drop the dew.” 

God built the heavens and

 the earth without one penny.

Our limitations in life don’t come

from money they come from a lack of

Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge.

No wonder the Bible tell us they are

more profitable than silver and gold.

God does not hand out food

 vouchers and unemployment checks…

 

He hands out wisdom.

 “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God,

who gives generously to all without finding fault,

 and it will be given to him. James 1:5 NIV

Money can build a house,

but it can’t build a home.

Money can build a town,

 but it can’t build a community.

Be a wise master builder.

Let your faith drive you in prayer

to God for more wisdom.

Money is not the key to the million dollar life…

Get Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge!

 

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 1:17-19 NIV

 18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened

in order that you may know the hope to which he has

called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

Proverbs 3:13-20 NIV

13 Blessed is the man who finds wisdom,

the man who gains understanding,

14 for she is more profitable than silver

and yields better returns than gold.

15 She is more precious than rubies;

nothing you desire can compare with her.

16 Long life is in her right hand;

in her left hand are riches and honor.

17 Her ways are pleasant ways,

and all her paths are peace.

18 She is a tree of life to those who embrace her;

those who lay hold of her will be blessed.

19 By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations,

by understanding he set the heavens in place;

20 by his knowledge the deeps were divided,

and the clouds let drop the dew.

Proverbs 24:3-4 NIV

3 By wisdom a house is built,

and through understanding it is established;

4 through knowledge its rooms are filled

with rare and beautiful treasures.