Proverbs 15:17
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
A teacher friend of mine related the counsel she gave a young wealthy man in trying to prove the sincerity of the many girls who wanted to marry him. My friend told him, “Take them for a week-end of wild hiking and camping; once away from the wining and dining paint-deep glitter of city-life, you will see their true motives, and mainly, their personality.” This actually proved to be good counsel as several girls only wanted to be with him only to enjoy the benefit of his wealth. I think he married the girl who went camping with him, the girl who was happy to enjoy a simple ‘dinner of herb’, such a dinner as is eaten on the road somewhere when traveling, with the sole joy of being in the presence of the person she loved.
In the same manner, we are traveling. We are ‘camping on this earth as ‘pilgrims and strangers’ the Bible says. During our earthly travels, Yeshua, our traveling companion and leader sometimes takes us to a restaurant, but most often we have to make-do with simple sandwiches or a pre-made camping dish warmed up on a camping stove. We do not mind though, because the foundation of the joy and fulfillment of our souls is solely to be with our Beloved Messiah: Yeshua.
Yeshua is the owner of everything. He can lavish wealth upon wealth on our lives and this He will do in the world to come. For now, we need to be content with what He has, in His great wisdom, chosen to give us. We need to be content when in need the same we are when we are in abundance. It shouldn’t matter. Some think it unfair and the devil knows it, so he tempts people with the wealth of this world. He tries to make them think that they are an absolute and inherent sign of God’s blessing and thereby deceives them.
Are our times of distress, poverty and need His way to test the motives of our relationship with Him? Do we only want Him for the provision and protection he can give us? Do we only want Him for what we can get out of Him, or do we truly love Him for Him, even if it involves only a ‘dinner of herb’ sitting on log in a forest with clouds warning of rain, but in His blessed Presence?
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
A teacher friend of mine related the counsel she gave a young wealthy man in trying to prove the sincerity of the many girls who wanted to marry him. My friend told him, “Take them for a week-end of wild hiking and camping; once away from the wining and dining paint-deep glitter of city-life, you will see their true motives, and mainly, their personality.” This actually proved to be good counsel as several girls only wanted to be with him only to enjoy the benefit of his wealth. I think he married the girl who went camping with him, the girl who was happy to enjoy a simple ‘dinner of herb’, such a dinner as is eaten on the road somewhere when traveling, with the sole joy of being in the presence of the person she loved.
In the same manner, we are traveling. We are ‘camping on this earth as ‘pilgrims and strangers’ the Bible says. During our earthly travels, Yeshua, our traveling companion and leader sometimes takes us to a restaurant, but most often we have to make-do with simple sandwiches or a pre-made camping dish warmed up on a camping stove. We do not mind though, because the foundation of the joy and fulfillment of our souls is solely to be with our Beloved Messiah: Yeshua.
Yeshua is the owner of everything. He can lavish wealth upon wealth on our lives and this He will do in the world to come. For now, we need to be content with what He has, in His great wisdom, chosen to give us. We need to be content when in need the same we are when we are in abundance. It shouldn’t matter. Some think it unfair and the devil knows it, so he tempts people with the wealth of this world. He tries to make them think that they are an absolute and inherent sign of God’s blessing and thereby deceives them.
Are our times of distress, poverty and need His way to test the motives of our relationship with Him? Do we only want Him for the provision and protection he can give us? Do we only want Him for what we can get out of Him, or do we truly love Him for Him, even if it involves only a ‘dinner of herb’ sitting on log in a forest with clouds warning of rain, but in His blessed Presence?
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