“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11)
Growing Dominion, Part 57
We sometimes think we are mature enough to start forgetting our Sunday School lessons. But we never outgrow certain things, like the fundamental principles of honesty. These are principles which are operative when you are ten-years-old and running your first lemonade stand, and when you are fifty and CEO of a large company.
Scripture teaches, “Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death” (Prov. 10:2). Notice that we are called to remember that there is a bottom line underneath the bottom line. We must know that there is a spiritual form of double-entry bookkeeping. In other words, a wicked businessman or merchant can think he did well to cut corners, or drive a sharp bargain, because he had more money at the end of the day than he would have had otherwise. But the Bible tells such a man that wickedness profits nothing. However well he thought he did, the ledgers of heaven tell a different story.