The Right Way

A once-successful man plunged into gambling, then into theft first from his company, then from his own wife in the vain hope that a “lucky break” would undo his mounting sins, proving again the folly Scripture condemns: “Let us do evil, that good may come.” His life illustrated the truth that a bad business cannot have a good ending, and yet such moral confusion is now praised as “realistic” even in the church. The only redeeming element came from his godly wife, who, refusing the illusion that prison time “paid his debt,” embraced God’s law of restitution. She worked, sacrificed her inheritance, repaid every wronged person, and in the process built strength and character into her children and secured God’s blessing through obedience. Her faith revealed what her husband’s folly denied: “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”