Year 5, Day 313: Proverbs 22

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Discipleship Focus: Appetite

• Appetite: We all have needs that need to be filled.  When we allow ourselves to be filled with the people and things that God brings into our life, we will be satisfied because our In will be in proper focus.  But when we try to fill ourselves with our own desires we end up frustrated by an insatiable hunger.

There are a number of verses in this chapter that have to deal with wealth and the management of resources.  I think that what we are talking about in each of these verses is the idea of appetite.  What do we want, and how badly do we want it?

For me, I believe that these verses are talking greatly about the timing of appetite.  The truth is that we all have desires.  The question that remains is whether or not our desires determine our actions or whether our spirit determines our action.

Proverbs 22:7, 26-27 are great verses that speak to this topic.  If our appetite rules over our spirit, then the rich will always rule over the poor.  This is because we will place ourselves in debt to get what we want.  We will put things up for collateral that we truly need so that we can get what we want.  When our appetite rules our spirit, we leverage our needs for our wants.  This is utterly backwards, and it is Solomon’s point as he writes this.  We must have our appetite in check.

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