Friday!

Proverbs!

Whoever increases his wealth through excessive interest collects it for one who is kind to the poor.

Proverbs 28:8 CSB

Well that's not the way the world I live in seems to work!

And maybe that's the point of this proverb, to get us to stop for a moment and consider the systems that we are part of. Systems that can change, and can be changed. 

This also gets me wondering about the Bigger Story, that person who has power in having capital or a business or assets or money who thinks they're accumulating it for themselves, but as they say, "one day it all goes back in the box". None of us can take it with us, and when Jesus Kingdom is fully functioning on earth, the last, the least, the left out, will be first. 

And finally I'm wondering if the author of this proverb (who may have been Solomon) was hopeful that the next generation will be more compassionate, more willing, more able to share resources than his. 

If Proverbs is about getting me to think about my heart, what's it saying to me today?

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