Proverbs 10:15
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The book of Proverbs is not a collection of inspirational quotes for coffee mugs. It is a book of applied theology, a divine field manual for navigating the world as it actually is. It does not engage in the kind of sentimental flattery that our modern therapeutic age mistakes for kindness. The Holy Spirit, through Solomon, is far more interested in our holiness than our feelings, and so He tells us the truth about the structure of reality. And one of the foundational realities of a fallen world is that resources matter. On the one hand, we are crass materialists, chasing after wealth as the ultimate good, believing it will solve all our problems. On the other hand, we have a strain of romantic pietism, often found in the church, that pretends money is somehow dirty or unspiritual.