Greed and it's fruit - a Biblical perspective.

Greed and it's fruit - a Biblical perspective. 

The Infographics Show on it's Facebook page on 10/11/2021 posted a short information about famous Pole vault champion Sergey Bubka. The information goes on like this -

"Ukrainian pole vaulter Surgey Bubka won the 1983 World Championship when he was just 19 years old and he went on to win six consecutive world titles. Eventually, Bubka became famous for breaking world record for the highest pole vault 35 times. Between 1991 and 1993, he broke the record 14 times by incremental amounts just to collect prize money in amounts of upto $100,000 each time."

On reading the post, thoughts ran on my mind about "greed", and thought of writing my views on the biblical point of view on the subject. My thoughts are as goes -

That's how you can make easy money. Know your potential first and dispose it in number of intervals. Be sure you'll get an appreciation every single time. That's it. But the Bible names it  as "greed".

The Bible is very clear about the fate or the consequences of being greedy. The Book of Proverbs 15:27 says, "The greedy bring ruin to their households..", "The greedy stir up conflict..", in Proverbs 28:25. King Solomon writing in Ecclesiastes 5:10, "Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income." In Proverbs 28:22, "The stingy are eager to get rich and are unaware that poverty awaits them." Jesus warns us in Luke 12:15, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” And the warning has a horrific destiny. Apostle Paul writing to Corinthians about who will not inherit the Kingdom of God, "Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." (1Corinthians 6:9,10). Again writings to Ephesians, Paul says, "For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater —has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." (Ephesians 5:5).

For those who are not greedy are will be like, "..but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf." (Proverbs 11:28), and, "..but those who trust in the LORD will prosper." (Proverbs 28:25).