The words of Agur in Proverbs 30 v 7- 9 are very helpful,it is a prayer, it reads,
'Two things I ask of you,Lord; do not refuse me before I die;
Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty
nor riches,but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may
have to much and disown you and say.''Who is the Lord?''
Or I may become poor and steal,and so dishonour the name
of my God
Hear is a man who wants to honour God ,he sees the evil in falsehood and lies,so he asks God for his help,it is good to recognise our weaknesses,and how easily it is to sin,Shakespeare wrote ,'Man know thyself', Yes even as Christians we can easily loose our way,and fall into practices that our wrong,in the light of that we need Gods help everyday,as the song goes,'I need Thee every hour'.The next two things he touches on is poverty and riches,D Atkinson write ,'We need help to use both poverty and wealth appropriately'. As regards prosperity read Deuteronomy 6 v10-12,which shows clearly,the dangers to our spiritual life,as regards prosperity,even to the place of forgetting God.Leupold writes'To cope with prosperity may be more difficult,than to cope with poverty'.As regards poverty,no one likes to be poor,and in that condition we can be tempted to steal, Poverty does not give us a right to commit wrongs.Agur pleads with God to keep him from the extremes ,and to have enough to live on.
' Whatever state we find ourselves in,may
we glorify God'
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