Friday! Proverbs!
Wealth
adds many friends,
But a poor man
is separated
from his friend.
Proverbs 19:4 NASB
It's not often that Proverbs brings a tear to the eye. To lose your friend for being (relatively) poor is sad.
How often have I wanted to meet, get to know, become the friend of someone because of their (relative) wealth.
How often I've looked past, not connected with, not given time to someone because they seemed (relatively) poor.
I easily equate external success with value.
But we digress.
Why would the poor person be separated from their friend?
Could it be that they have no choice, they are affected by disaster and have no resources, illness and can't travel, forced to live in a refugee camp, fleeing from those with power, the actions of someone else that the poor person has no resources to fight, have to move away to find work and survive...
Do we just accept that this is the way the world is?
In our little piece of the planet we can make a difference.
#lovepeople
#somethingtochewon