Teaching in these times I wonder if anyone prays for wisdom.
Today I feel like people would rather have oracles than wisdom. Have a math problem ... get the calculator. Have a harder problem ... get the answer from the back of the book. It's an even numbered problem ... ask someone else to do it for you. How should we vote ... listen to the talking heads on TV. Is the president a good man ... read the talking heads on the internet.
No one seems to want to work for understanding or to work for wisdom. It is a rare person who goes out of their way to become wise in knowledge. Let alone try to become wise in the ways of the LORD.
Solomon built the temple and his own house. He spent 7 years on the temple and 13 years on his own house.
God only asks for one day a week for us to spend with Him. I like to think of Sunday as a day of focus. A day where I focus on God and what He wants. The other 6 are for work. But are we like Solomon in spending twice as much time on ourselves than the Lord? Is that where your money goes? Your efforts? Your time?
For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.
As I said above, we are like Solomon. Out of our abundance we give, but the majority of our wealth we hold for back for ourselves. During the 2004 election I spent some time looking at the IRS information of wealth, taxes, and giving. I was curious about how people voted based on those three things.
What wasn't surprising to me was that the poorest states gave the largest portion of their money away. And the richest states gave, by far, the least portion of their wealth. Those that have can't imagine not having ... so they hoard. Those that don't have know what it is like to be without ... so they give what little they do have to help others.
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