Posted on 12/19/2020 11:31:57 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed” (Proverbs 20:21).
This is but another example in the Bible of “easy come, easy go.” If you don’t get it right, it’ll come out wrong. One fellow that got his inheritance quick in the New Testament and it turned out to be really bad was the Prodigal son.
“And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him” (Luke 15:12-16).
Fortunately for him, however, the very next verse begins, “And when he came to himself.” Unfortunately, a lot of people do not.
Now, over and over again we are seeing a reiteration of the truth of God’s patience. There is really no reason to cut corners in life. Consider the fellow that makes a hasty loan in Proverbs 16 and has somebody go surety for them. People wanting to get something when they really can’t afford it, so they find somebody to cosign for it. One of the real tragedies in marriages today is the number of young people that believe they need to have right now what it took their parents thirty years to acquire. As a result, they get into a financial hole and many of those marriages just can’t survive it. Impatience can be a real killer.
It is true that we can’t always avoid it. We need a car to get to work in and a house to live in, and very few people have the wherewithal to pay cash for either. But one can use moderation in both and live under their means to afford them. Sometimes we will find ourselves walking in the lusts and the desires of the flesh, and there is just no way we are willing to wait on God or a better situation—we want it now. Those easy payments are never easy. Thank God when He provides, but He doesn’t always do so.
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