Bible Reading: Proverbs 17:1-9
Key Verse: Verse 1 – “Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.”
Key Words: Better is a dry morsel
Let me give you my interpretation of Proverbs 17:1, “You are better off with a few dry crackers with peace in your home than a freezer full of meat with strife in the home.”
In a survey done by the Barna group more people who said they consider themselves rich had strife in their home than those who said they were not rich.
E. Stanley Jones, in his book Growing Spiritually, talks about a fictional person who lived out a fantasy life. All he had to do was think of it and (poof!) it happened.
So this man, in a moment of time, sticks his hands in his pockets and leans back and imagines a mansion and (poof!) he has a 15-bedroom mansion, three stories with servants instantly available to wait upon his every need.
Why, a place like that needs several fine cars. So he again closes his eyes and imagines the driveway full of the finest wheels money can buy. And (poof!) there are several of the best vehicles instantly brought before his mind’s eye. He is free to drive them himself or sit way back in the limousine with that mafia glass wrapped around the rear, and have the chauffeur drive him wherever he wishes.
There’s no other place to travel so he comes back home and wishes for a sumptuous meal and (poof!) there’s a meal in front of him with all of its mouthwatering aromas and beauty – which he eats alone. And yet...there was something more he needed to find happiness.
Finally, he grows so terribly bored and unchallenged that he whispers to one of the attendants, “I want to get out of this. I want to create some things again. I’d rather be in hell than be here.” To which one of the servants replies quietly, “Where do you think you are?”
When you live for things, you are in hell! What a shame!
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞ Take the advice of hymn-writer B. B. McKinney and be "Satisfied with Jesus.”
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