Bragging On Jesus

Proverbs in 365 Devotions For more go to braggingonjesus.com Proverbs 11:4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.  The day of wrath… Well the greatest day of wrath will come when God judges sin and sinners. Even if you could take your riches with you to face that judgment it would not profit you. A person cannot bribe God. He already owns it all. And anyway the streets are made of gold in heaven so what would you offer him that he might keep justice from you? No, God is just and no one can stay his hand. Even here on earth when a sentence of justice is to be read even a most exorbitant amount of money from the guilty party will not be enough to pay off a just judge; and equally just is how that judge will neither sentence an innocent person to death.  The thought of justice can be an uncomfortable thought though because we all fall short of perfection. This underlying force of conscious causes us to check our speedometer and seat belt at the sight of a police o