Posted on 08/09/2021 10:30:57 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty” (Proverbs 10:15).
“There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches” (Proverbs 13:7).
Most of us probably don't even have a shot at that first guy, so you might as well concede the battle and just be the second guy “that maketh himself poor.” You give away a lot, and “yet hath great riches.” but it goes on to say in verse 8, “The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.”
The reason I read that verse in that last half. We’ve known people only one wanted money, and had no inclination whatsoever for any kind of counsel, or any kind of answer for why they're in the place their in. Just try to witness to the guy sitting in a cardboard box with his hand out. Oh, he might nod his head a bit while waiting for you to throw some cash in his bucket, but he’s not interested. Just try to hand him a sack of burgers instead of money, and you may be surprised (or not) with his reaction. Burgers don’t buy booze; it is sad to say.
“Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment” (Proverbs 13:23).
Now, this is a good verse to memorize, you might want to mark it. You know what tillage is? Tillage is where you go and till your field. You have a crop in and you till to get the weeds out, but in your tilling you are careless, and you wind up digging up potatoes and stuff that are not ripe; and so you wind up digging up a bunch of food that would have been available to you later. In other words, by waste you end up frittering away your riches. Now that's America.
“Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool” (Proverbs 19:1).
“The time is short,” and remember, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich [in all the glory which He had with the Father before the world was], yet for your sakes he became poor [even shedding His precious blood on Calvary's cross to make us His own and fit us for Himself], that ye through his poverty might be rich.”
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