A devotional thought from the prophet Zephaniah
Have you seen those commercials on television about protecting your money by buying gold and silver, heaping up riches, as it were, so that they can protect you in difficult times? Not a bad strategy from the human perspective, but it didn't work for some people of ancient times. Listen to what Zephaniah prophesied to one such group:
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Zephaniah 1:18
If God blesses you temporally be glad, and use it well for the good of your family, and other good things, but do not trust in the uncertain riches, trust in God, revealed to us in His holy Word and come to us in His Son Jesus.