[pull_quote_center] “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, who establishes a city by iniquity!” Habakkuk 2:12 NKJV [/pull_quote_center]
Here, God is talking about how people acquire their wealth and achieve their goals. Some people don’t mind killing in order to get what they want; some will deny their workers their entitlements; others, especially those in public offices, embezzle funds meant for payments of pensions, and for developmental purposes, not minding if people die as a result of their negligence. Then there are those who believe in rising by climbing on others or by eliminating them somehow: they set people up, frame them, tell lies against them, just to rise.
Jeremiah 17:11 says, “As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, so is he who gets riches, but not by right; it will leave him in the midst of his days, and at his end he will be a fool.” And Jeremiah 22:13 says, “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness and his chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor’s service without wages and gives him nothing for his work.”
Brothers and sisters, we must be different. God can bless and prosper you without you having to soil your hands. And if God has graciously elevated you to an exalted position, please use it to His glory: give people what is due to them, don’t withhold what is due to others; resist the temptation to be corrupt. Build by righteousness and justice and God will truly bless you. Amen.
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