Proverbs 19:22
The desire
of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
When we
don’t have everything we would like it can make us humble and grateful. We appreciate the food someone might make for
us, or maybe the time someone spends with us.
When we are lacking certain things we desire and are content with where
we are, we are tender to those who may not have certain things and will look
out for how we might meet those needs.
The lack of anything we desire is a good place for us to be. This leaves
us dependent on the Lord as our Father and keeps us in a place where we are
asking Him for certain things and then trusting His final decision on the
matter. If we go about getting things we
desire through wrong means, God says that it is better that we would be without
than to lie and get what we want. We
cannot fudge numbers on loan applications, we cannot represent ourselves
falsely to get a job, we cannot milk the welfare system to get more than an
honest compensation and we cannot misrepresent our situation to get pity or
attention that we may desire. Let us
rejoice in the lack of certain things we desire today knowing that the Lord can
use this to make us kind and patient with others and let us be adamant in
representing only the truth in all our financial dealings.
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