Posted on 04/05/2020 6:29:13 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well” (Proverbs 5:15 KJV).
The rest of the verses to the end of the chapter are obviously teaching us to just be content with what you have. The plain, down-to-earth, bottom line of these verse is be content with what you got.
“Drink waters out of thine own cistern,” doesn’t the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence? Some folks have just got it better than me! One of the really bad things about TV is that it gives you the false picture of life that everybody is doing better than us. If we have a house and an automobile, we are doing vastly better than 95% of the rest of the world. That’s what you need to understand. What you need to do is to see about a four-hour documentary on what life is like in India, Pakistan, Thailand and places like those. I guarantee you that those will make you appreciate what the Lord has given you in America.
“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well,”
Discipline yourselves to realize that nobody has it any better than you—and if they do, they must deserve it. Or God is damning them with it. Just because a man has more than us doesn’t mean that he has it better than us. God will damn folks with prosperity if that is what they want, if that is all they want out of life. Do you realize this? Look at it this way. All the hell that you as a Christian will ever see is right here. And this is a close to heaven as an unsaved man will ever get. Let him have his do, let him have his fling through this world.
It is like the wife that was daily put upon by her drunken, no good husband that would make her get up at all hours of the night to fix dinner for his drunken companions. Another woman asked her why she put up with it. She said, “I love my husband, but I know he is going to hell if he does not get saved. When he is in hell, I want him to at least have the joy of remembering that someone truly loved him—and maybe hell won’t be so bad for him.”
Don’t be envious of sinners. They are going to spend an eternity in hell, this is the best that they are ever going to get.
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