Morning meditation
33 With great power the emissaries continued testifying to the resurrection of the Lord Yeshua, and they were all held in high regard.
The resurrection was a big deal! The fact that Yeshua Who many of them had seen die, was alive again!
He in His resurrection took hold of them and with the coming of the Holy Spirit to indwell them they were charged with boldness and spoke with authority and power!
Do you ever long for days you have not yet known? Me too, this morning.
From hence forth I will be using the word whore, shall we say in a wiser manner.
Proverbs 6:26 The price of a whore is a loaf of bread, but the adulteress is hunting for a precious life. source
Have you seen the Movie, Pretty Woman? Vivian was a prostitute. And it was her practice to keep it strictly business – pay your loaf of bread and be on your way.
And to think all these years we have used the word whore to denote the worst of the worst. I am rethinking that. Here’s why.
But the adulteress is hunting for a precious life.
She’s not looking for a loaf of bread; she’s looking to shut down the bakery and put it under new management! She’s looking for lives (and families) to devour.
Adultery. It is far, far worse than we in this 21st Century have let ourselves believe.
Yes. I have a new perspective.
There are Vivian(s) in this world; some are lured into it by various and multiple means, some are abducted and enslaved into it, but they all have this in common: JESUS wants to rescue them! He loves them with the purest love they have yet to know.
And there are 26 (b) women in this world: adulteresses. Somehow to me now it is even less becoming a word than whore. Even so, JESUS wants to rescue! Even so, JESUS has a pure and holy love for us all: Vivian(s), 26 (b)s, and the Mary Jane(s), the Susie(s), the Girls Next Door. All of us! JESUS CAME for US! In whatever pit of sin we are found; and we all have our pits. JESUS came to save sinners! And that my Friends covers us all!
It’s GOOD NEWS! Spread it! It’s better than butter on bread! :)
I have understood these verses to mean that he/she who is too lazy to get out of bed will come to poverty. And I believe that to be true. Couch potatoes or bed dwellers (by choice) generally do not prosper with houses and lands; cars, boats or trucks either.
9 Lazybones! How long will you lie there in bed? When will you get up from your sleep? 10 “I’ll just lie here a bit, rest a little longer, just fold my hands for a little more sleep” — 11 and poverty comes marching in on you, scarcity hits you like an invading soldier. source
Yet there is another poverty that comes when we tap the snooze button again and again, morning after morning.
Poverty of Spirit.
When we love the bed (notwithstanding illnesses and much-needed resting feasts) more than we love fellowship with our Heavenly Father in prayer and in His Word, we are indeed poor. I say this because until recently I had become abundantly poor. Scarcity hits you like an invading soldier — indeed!
