In chapter 19 of Proverbs we have several written on the subject of wealth and poverty. As I write this I am leaving for a small missions trip to Chicago that, along with soccer fun, we will be packing food for the poor of third world countries. I thought these truths were appropriate to meditate upon. In our country money talks and poverty is asked to take walk where we can't see them. But, notice Solomon's wisdom on this subject:
19:1 - "Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in speech and is a fool."
19:4 - "Wealth adds many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friends."
19:6 - "Many will seek the favor of a generous man, and every man is a friend to him who gives gifts."
19:7 - "All the brothers of a poor man hate him, He pursues them with words, but they are gone."
19:17 - "One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD, and He will repay him for his good deed."
19:22 - "What is desirable in a man is his kindness, and it is better to be a poor man than a liar."
As the above verses point out, poverty has its privileges. We don't believe that in our society and wealth certainly has its earthly pluses. But, God is in the life of the poor and we are to recognize their need for companionship, promotion and love - above weatlh.
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