Proverbs 10

by Ann

 

Prov 10:5 (NASB) Once upon a time, summer “vacation” was based on the fact that the children were needed to help on the farm at that specific time of year.  Now it has become a break time – a time to do all of those “fun” things that there seems to be no time for during the school year. 

 

Culture changes.  Needs change.  But, do we truly change our habits to match the changes in culture and needs? 

 

I don’t know that I’m saying summer break in inherently bad.  But, I wonder sometimes if we are using it as judiciously as we should.  There is a harvest out there for us as Christians, and it requires no specific season for us to work it.  There is always seed to sow.  There are always hearts to tend.  There is always harvest to reap.  And yet, we take breaks. 

 

I wonder if a mental shift is needed – a shift from the vacation idea to the change in work focus idea.  Sometimes we do need to redirect.  Sometimes we need a change.  But, let’s not make that change be to stop working.  Let it be just to make a shift in the type of work we do!

 

Prov 10:21 (NASB) Do we ever hold righteousness and the truth and wisdom that flows from it to be as critical to our survival as this?  Do we equate our need for it to our need for food?  We must learn!  We must grow!  Without the learning that proceeds from righteous wisdom we die, just as surely as if we were without food.