Friday!

Proverbs!

He who farms his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows futilities will have plenty of poverty.

Proverbs 28:19 CJB

This word "futilities" is the word "req" which seems to mean worthless, empty, foolish, vain, idle. 

While at one level this proverb can be read that work hard, use your skills and gifts and you'll flourish in your world, and if you don't, you won't.

But if Proverbs is not a weapon to be used to tell people to go get a job, it's about the heart. 

So could it be getting at here?

Is there a poverty of the heart, the spirit, the wairua, that comes from setting our minds on the worthless, empty, foolish, vain & idle?

And what is the heart food that comes from farming the land?

The crop, the fruit, the result?

Farming our spiritual land, our heart land, the who-I-am takes time, preparation, inputs. Fruit doesn't usually appear by accident. 

As we sit with this Proverb today, what comes up for you?

Is it something that leads to "poverty" that we can let go from our lives? Cut down?

Is it something that needs farming, cultivating, developing, shaping that will lead to a crop, fruit, a harvest?

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