Proverbs - Thieves

Proverbs 6:30-31

 Men do not despise a thief,

if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold;

he shall give all the substance of his house.

                        Sometimes dire straits can tempt a man to compromise his standards.  Whenever we find ourselves hungry for anything we can be tempted to go after what we think we need without waiting on the Lord and taking it in a wrong way.  If we believe we are hungry for love we could very well enter into relationships that are designed to throw us into a prison of insecurity. Just like a thief is caught for breaking boundaries of honesty, he is confined to an even stricter boundary than the law that he violated.  We must remember that our thirsts and our hungers are totally met in our Maker Himself.  Jesus is the bread of life and Jesus has the living water that causes us to never thirst again 

            If you have taken anything that doesn’t belong to you, you must seek to make restitution.  Have you borrowed something and lost it?  Did you break something that belongs to someone else?  Bountifully restore it.

            Looking at the previous verses we see the Lord contrasting a thief versus an adulterer.  Here we see that a thief can restore what was taken and give the substance of his house to make things right.  Things can be given back. Trust is not such an easy thing to restore.