Let’s just suppose by some stretch of the imagination that you have financial problems and you need some help. It’s not the kind of help that a loan would fix. Most people think that if they are having financial problems, all they need to do is to get a loan and that solves their problems. Sometimes that complicates the problem. The problem started at the beginning because of poor management. What you need is a financial counsel, advice, so that you can learn to manage your money better and not just solve your problem but keep from becoming a problem in the future.
Where would you go for that kind of counsel? Would you go to a close friend who has been a success in business? Or would you go to a lawyer or to your banker? Where would you go? Do you know that it’s possible for you to go to one of the wealthiest and the wisest man who ever lived on the earth? His name is Solomon, King of Israel, son of David.
Solomon was the king of one of the greatest nations that existed on the face of the earth in his time. He led that nation in an era of international commerce that was unprecedented. They had not known that kind of prosperity and success before nor have they known it since. But it came to pass under Solomon. He personally administered one of the greatest building construction projects in the history of the world, the building of King Solomon’s temple. On that job they employed 153,000 laborers—that’s a pretty good work crew. And the job cost an unprecedented amount of money and he personally supervised that. He had to have some knowledge of finance and some knowledge of how to organize and get things done.
He wrote several books and those books encompass almost every field of knowledge—science and psychology, business, family and marriage relationships, and how to rear children and deal with moral problems as well as his advice concerning finances. In his day heads of state from all over the world traveled thousands of miles just do sit down and talk with him and to get his advice and counsel concerning the great issues of life. Fortunately for us King Solomon under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit wrote down much of that advice and though we cannot go and sit down with him personally, we can read the book of Proverbs that contain much of his wisdom and we can learn what this man had to say about almost every aspect of life.