WHERE DOES OUR WEALTH COME FROM

Today's reading: Acts 19-20

"...Gentlemen, you know that our wealth comes from this business." Acts 19:25 NLT

Demetrius was a wealthy silver-idol making businessman in the city of Ephesus.

When Paul came along and disrupted his trade by teaching about Jesus, it got in his pocketbook because not as many little silver gods were being sold.

Demetrius, like too many of us, believe what we have--whether it be money, health, possession or abilities--is any of our own doing.

Mr. Silver, here, thought he had cared and provided for his family all those years.

He thought his hands produced what was needed to put food on the table and clothes on his children's back.

He believed this New Way was going to disrupt all he had come to love and be comfortable in.

Oh, but if he only knew how his world and life could change knowing Jesus!