| Reading: Proverbs 19:1-10 |
Sometimes I hate being lower than middle class.
Sometimes I get to feeling down because I don’t have more.
Sometimes I wonder what God wants me to learn in the economic strata I find myself.
Learn.
And be.
“Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool” (1).
![[A false witness shall not be unpunished (Proverbs 19:5,9)]](/pantinghart/wp-content/afalsewitness-b.jpg "A false witness shall not be unpunished (Proverbs 19:5,9)")
A little bit more from Proverbs 19: Love Your Own Soul!
| Reading: Proverbs 17:20-28 |
When someone has a cough, offer them a zinc lozenge or a dose of cough syrup or some Vitamin C or all three.
If the problem is a headache, offer aspirin or acetaminophen.
For a cut, a triple antibiotic.
A stab wound? Call 9-1-1. (At least.)
But what about hurts and wounds to the soul and spirit?
What if the threat of infection is to the mind or the will or the emotions?
Or the morals? Or the values? Or the convictions?
My thoughts have flowed along that channel after reading this verse:
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones” (21).
I want to be one whose state of heart and spirit does good to others (and to me).
![[Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise (Proverbs 17:28)]](/pantinghart/wp-content/countedwise-b.jpg "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise (Proverbs 17:28)")
A little bit more from Proverbs 17: That You?