Neither poverty, nor riches

Lest I be full, Lest I be poor.

Pro 30:7  Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:

Pro 30:8  Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

Pro 30:9  Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

Please, Lord, give me neither poverty nor riches.

Truth! And such a blessing! Neither rich nor poor.  There are dangers in each. To be rich is to want for nothing and feel no need of the LORD. To be poor is to succumb to stealing and taking God's name in vain as if He doesn't exist, as if His laws, His commandments of love mean nothing.

Just as we talked about yesterday a bit- we are in danger when we give in to the acceptable form of lying.  On the same vein as that, we are in danger when we give into the belief 'God will understand if I steal, He knows I'm hungry and would want me to steal.'    A lie.

Yes, we tell ourselves these things so we don't have face the reality of our failings, our DELIBERATE failings!  Our sins that are NOT of ignorance but deliberate intentional sinning we try to tell our conscience is acceptable. We throw up examples from the Bible of the men and women of God sinning in acceptable ways, yet truthfully we don't know how acceptable it was because we don't know the repentance of any of their hearts that alone is between them and God.

We know that God would not have us in pain, yet many of God's chosen have suffered extreme pain all in order NOT to sin. They did NOT renounce God so they could live.  Yet we tell ourselves it's okay to do so because God knows the truth that the renunciation is false, and our heart is God's.   Is it okay? Honestly, it is probably decided on an individual basis, because our God is NOT a God who lacks compassion. As much as He is a consuming fire, He is also the God who sent His Son, He is the God who sent the Holy Spirit to us and the Holy Spirit speaks for us because we cannot speak as we need to before God. 

This is TRUTH.

We must place all our hope in Christ our Savior to save us from all we need saving from.

Please, Lord, again we ask for neither poverty nor riches.

Feed us Lord, feed us with food convenient for us- in all things.  Not too much, not too little, but that which keeps us in YOU in all ways! Spiritually, physically, in every way there is, feed us with food convenient for us.

All by Your grace, Your mercy, Your forgiveness, Your love, Your power, Your glory, Your honor,  Your righteousness!

Amen.