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Proverbs!

The wealth of the rich is their fortress; 
the poverty of the poor is their destruction.
Proverbs 10:15 NLT
Two interesting ideas to sit with here:
How do I see wealth as a fortress, protection, buffer?
And the only way I get to think this way is from a place of wealth...
If I can afford a flu vaccine I can create a buffer against illness for example.
If I can afford a car I can take my child to the school I choose...
And the second part?
If I can't afford to heat where I live in winter my health will pay.
Poverty eats people up.
(And yes we can spiritualise this and look at as a spiritual poverty - but I don't think this is the idea here)
Where or how am I involved in flipping this Proverb?
Is this what followers of Jesus are called towards, those with less, to even things up, to challenge systems that hold people down?
What do you think as we sit with this Proverb today?
#Proverbs 
#wisdom #somethingtochewon
#itsaheartthing #takethenextstep 

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