Being Successful Shopping for Success

Being Successful

Shopping for Success

 

“He holds success in store for the upright”

If you are shopping for success you won’t find it

in any of the brick and mortar stores

Or on the internet among all their items

Proverbs 2:7 tells us God has a store

On His shelves and in His showcases He displays “Success”

In His store you will find

“Insight” “Understanding” and “Knowledge” 

No amount of money can buy these things

They are purchased with desire

You have to show how bad you want the items by “crying out”

Hard times make us want to go shopping at God’s store

There seems to be a store for everything.

Little retail shops to mega malls.

Thanks to the internet you don’t have

to leave your home to go into a store.

We can shop around the world

with a click on our computer.

If you are shopping for success you won’t find

it in any of these stores among all their items.

Proverbs 2:7 tells us God has a store.

On His shelves and in His showcases He displays “Success”.

In His store you will find

“Insight” “Understanding” and “Knowledge”.

  

No amount of money can buy these things.

They are purchased with desire.

You have to show how bad you

want the items by “crying out”.

The store is full but you have to search for what

you want like you would search for hidden treasure. 

This is not a store where you buy

something for temporary use.

There is nothing for the current fad.

The items in this store are to become a part of you for life.

To make a purchase in the store of success,

you pay with things in your life.

You pay with thoughts and emotions you have deep within you.

It gets very personal, the owner of the store is not

afraid to demand secret and deep things in your soul.

When you enter this store it is frightening.

 You know the Owner is going to make

some strong demands of you.

But the fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom, and every other item in His store.

To come out of His store with success you

will have to have an upright walk.

I have found I have to live in this store.

The Owner has been very patient with me as I

don’t always understand what He wants to sell me.

But the harder part is I find unwillingness

on my part to pay the price to give

up things that are so dear to me.

 Amazing changes take place when I store up in

my heart the commands I have received in His store.

Where are you shopping for success?

There is a true saying…

“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t buy.”

In all your shopping get Wisdom, Insight,

Understanding, and Knowledge.

 

Scripture Reading

Proverbs 2

1 My son, if you accept my words

and store up my commands within you,

2 turning your ear to wisdom

and applying your heart to understanding—

3 indeed, if you call out for insight

and cry aloud for understanding,

4 and if you look for it as for silver

and search for it as for hidden treasure,

5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD

and find the knowledge of God.

6 For the LORD gives wisdom;

from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

7 He holds success in store for the upright,

he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,

8 for he guards the course of the just

and protects the way of his faithful ones.

9 Then you will understand what is right and just

and fair—every good path.

10 For wisdom will enter your heart,

and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

11 Discretion will protect you,

and understanding will guard you.

12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,

from men whose words are perverse,

13 who have left the straight paths

to walk in dark ways,

14 who delight in doing wrong

and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,

15 whose paths are crooked

and who are devious in their ways.

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,

from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

17 who has left the partner of her youth

and ignored the covenant she made before God.[fn]

18 Surely her house leads down to death

and her paths to the spirits of the dead.

19 None who go to her return

or attain the paths of life.

20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good

and keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright will live in the land,

and the blameless will remain in it;

22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, 

and the unfaithful will be torn from it.