If is there is one thing we all know that can cut one's destiny short and hinder the fulfillment of God's plan for our life is greediness. Greediness is a sin which will should be beware of. Greediness deprives us from heavenly and other good benefits God has in stock for us. Gehazi could have been two times more powerful than Elisha and four times more powerful than Elijah but greediness couldn't allow him. Gehazi exchanged his glorious destiny with just two talents of silver and two changes of garment, not just that only, he got leprosy with it also. Satan realized this weak point of Gehazi, dealt with him in his weak area and robbed him of his glorious destiny. Gehazi was never mention in the Bible since then. This is the reward of greediness.
Ananias and Sapphira are another examples of individuals that played the role of greed in the Bible (Acts 2:1-11). What baffles me the most is that Ananias and Sapphira were not forced to sell the land and bring the money to the house of God, they did it in their own freewill. What I think they would have done is that, they would of told the apostles that they will be selling the land and they will be giving the house of God a portion of the money. I think this would have settled the whole matter instead of them telling lies against the Holy Spirit and died as a result. They both died as a result of their unfaithfulness and greediness.
Adam and Eve were another example of greed. We can say the origin of greediness is from Adam and Eve. We see that the greediness of Adam and Eve cost us the garden of Eden thereby we toiling for anything before we can have it. Maybe If Adam and Eve had not taken of the fruit of the tree of knowledge I think we all will still be living happily, gloriously, bond-free in the garden of Eden. We will not have to work/struggle/labour before we will eat. We can see what our first parents has cost us all just because of their greediness. Satan knew that they will be happy to eat the fruit because they want to know the good from evil, so he convinced Eve to eat of the fruit, greediness that is what i termed this. God has given them the privilege to eat of all the fruit of the tree of the garden but not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge only. Disobedience and greediness couldn't allow the original glorious plan for man be fulfilled. Thank God for His grace that he showed us by sending His only begotten son to come and die for you and me to cleanse the bad deed that has been laid down by our first parents
A greedy man is a wicked man. A greedy man is a covetous man. A greedy man does not want good for his/her neighbour because he wants all the good things of life for himself alone.
Rewards and Results of Greediness
1.Greediness make one a candidate of hell: Ananias and Sapphira destination will be hell fire, because they lied against the Holyspirit which led to their death. They died unrepentant
2. Greediness make one a candidate of death: Greed was the cause of the death of Ananias and Sapphira
3. Greediness cut one destiny short: We can see how Gehazi's destiny was cut short because of his destiny. Gehazi could have been another great and powerful prophet in his days.
4. Greediness can cost us the fulfillment of God's glorious plan for our life: We can see what our first parents cost us because of their greediness. They made us toil before we eat, struggle/labour before we can achieve a particular thing. That is what greediness can do.
The reward of greed is not good at all. It is better we prevent and cease from being a greedy fellow
GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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