DO YOU REMEMBER
WHAT THE NUMBER 7 MEANS IN THE BIBLE
Well, this article explains helps to comprehend that when you put to practice all these principles are a completely good life even when we live in a very complicated Word.
They found the truths that appear below in an old book full of maximum practices that do not lose their validity.
Here’s how you can apply them to better manage your money.
Something important to understand is that I remember the number 7 can apply on both PERFECT or COMPLETE on both levels. Spiritually and Earthly but I will explain more later on about that specific subject.
1. “A simple lover of silver will not be satisfied with silver, nor any lover of wealth with income.” (Ecclesiastes 5:10.)
These are not words of a poor and envious man. He wrote them, based on his own experience and observation.
One of the richest characters who have trodden the Earth: King Solomon of Israel. Wealthy men of more recent times have made similar comments.
2. “Having food and house, we are satisfied. Those who try to get rich fall […] into temptation and trap.” (1 Timothy 6: 8, 9.
The New Testament for today’s men.) The author of this statement was the apostle Paul, who abandoned a prominent career to follow Jesus Christ. Unlike some religious leaders today.
Paul fought firmly every temptation to take the material advantage of his students or his classmates.
That is why he could affirm with sincerity: “I have not coveted silver, nor gold, nor the clothing of anyone.
You yourselves know that these hands have attended to my needs and those of those who walk with me ”(Acts 20:33, 34).
3. “Who of you who wants to build a tower does not sit first and calculate the expenses, to see if he has enough to complete it?” (Luke 14:28).
This brief parable of Jesus can be applied at the time of making a purchase, especially if it is by credit card.
Will you buy on impulse, or will you have the patience to sit down and make accounts?
Do you really need the item and have to pay for it?
4. “The borrower becomes a slave to the lender.” (Proverbs 22: 7). Translation in the current language).
The recent financial crisis exposed the folly of incurring credit or other card debts.
In some countries “it is common for a person to owe, on average, more than $9,000 spread over four or more credit cards,” says Michael Wagner in his book Your Money, Day One, published in 2009.
5. “The wicked is borrowing and does not pay, but the righteous is showing favor and is giving gifts.” (Psalm 37:21.)
Some think that filing for bankruptcy is a simple way to get out of debt.
Instead, those who estimate their relationship with God not only do their best to pay what they owe, but they are also generous with what they have.
6. “A young man was me, I have also grown old, and yet I have seen no one left entirely, nor his offspring looking for bread.” (Psalm 37:25).
Such words belong to a man who suffered many injustices.
For years he lived as a fugitive, sometimes hiding in caves and other times seeking asylum in a foreign land.
Over time, this fugitive, David, was elected king of Israel. What he wrote resulted from his personal experience.
7. “There is more happiness in giving than in receiving.” (Acts 20:35.) This maxim belongs to the greatest man of all, Jesus.
“For the joy that was set before him,” he spent his life serving others when he was on Earth.
Now it is a spirit that enjoys immortal life in heaven, where it has sat at the right hand of the “happy God,” Jehovah (Hebrews 12: 2; 1 Timothy 1:11).
There is no nobler purpose in life than to copy the example of Jesus by doing everything in our power to serve others.
Undoubtedly, you agree it is better to be saving and generous than wasteful and selfish.
P.S. In future articles, I will explain all the biblical symbolic numbers and find these so fascinating