Power to Get Wealth

NSRV Deuteronomy 8:18

But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.

 

Why is this ponderable?

In light of the record-breaking $1.6 Billion Lottery we observed on Wednesday, this passage from Deuteronomy lets us ponder whether God himself selected the three final winners.  Given that the odds of having a Winning Ticket were about 1 in 300 million, the three winners cannot believe that their number selection ability beat out 300 million contenders. 

Anyone who purchased a ticket with so little hope for a win, must have some sense that a Power greater than themselves could intervene. Some may have attributed it to Lady Luck. Others may have felt it was their fate to win. And still others may have prayed for the wealth so they could help people in need. 

All Christians know that a prize, greater than any wealth on Earth, awaits them in Heaven. Yet Believers have pondered why God empowers some to get wealthy and not others. Often, in their estimation, the people whom God gives the greatest power to get wealth are the least worthy of it. And many decent hard-working people struggle daily just to put food on the table of life. 

We cannot know God's reasons. We can only trust Him to act with mercy and justice. Who knows? Perhaps those favored by Him while on Earth are merely instruments of His divine Will. And if such great wealth had fallen into our undeserving hands, it would have driven us to a life of selfish adolation. What good would it do us to have gained millions of dollars only to lose our souls in the process?