Thursday 21 Jun 2012

Thursday Reading: Proverbs 30:15-16

Key Verse: Proverbs 30:15
15  The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

Devotion:
There are a couple of things that get me reading my bible and then trying to think things through; the first is half a sentence and the other is something that I can’t figure out just by reading it. This passage fits both! The horseleach is not something I have come across but I know what a leech is and I know that they never seem to be satisfied with all that they take from you – so having something described in terms of a leech to me describes something that is not going to be satisfied; whether it has daughters or whatever (which causes much discussion amongst scholars apparently) still gives an insatiable appetite crying out for more followed by a count of three or even four things that should also show up as being without satisfaction.

The things listed are somewhat different and not what I would have thought about, but clearly the writer has a much brighter mind than mine!  No matter how many people are placed into the grave it is never going to be full because people continue to die as time goes by. The second is so much more controversial in that a barren woman cries out unceasingly for a child. The third is like a desert which is never going to be a fertile field with plenty of moisture. The last is a fire which continues to consume all that it is fed.

So what would this have to do with us? Well we may not be anything like any of the things described but we certainly do have vanities and desires that may well never be fulfilled by things in this earth just as these things. God is the one that knows that we do get carried away with things and that we do get side-tracked by so much. He also knows that we will turn our minds off to many things and pretend that we have not problems or issues with what we have – we do like to bury our issues so that we will not have to face them and the more that we bury things the more we wish to bury so that we will not have to face up to things in the future.

God is the one who puts things like this in our path so that we will stop and think. He is the one who knows us from the inside out and continues to try to make us stop for that brief moment so that we will not continue to try and sweep things under the carpet. God wants us to face up to things and to stop hiding behind vain imaginations, daydreams, whatever you wish to call them. God wants us to face reality. He wants us to think about situations and not just to plough on without regard. God wants us to embrace life but to do it by following His will, always.

Points to Ponder:
What makes you stop and think?

Has God got your attention yet?