Prescribing Provers – RX Eleven – August 11th

PRESCRIBING PROVERBS
August 11, 2021

A Proverb a day keeps Untruth away

Proverbs 1:1-6, ‘These are the wise sayings of Solomon, David’s son, Israel’s king—written down so we’ll know how to live well and right, to understand what life means and where it’s going; a manual for living, for learning what’s right and just and fair; to teach the inexperienced the ropes and give our young people a grasp on reality. There’s something here also for seasoned men and women, still a thing or two for the experienced to learn—fresh wisdom to probe and penetrate, the rhymes and reasons of wise men and women.’ (MSG)

Prescription (RX) Eleven: Super-Size It

Proverbs 11:24-25, ‘Generosity brings prosperity, but withholding from charity brings poverty. Those who live to bless others will have blessings heaped upon them, and the one who pours out his life to pour out blessings will be saturated with favor.’ (TPT)

There have been so many lessons from 2020, haven’t there? It will go down in the history books our grandchildren and great grandchildren will study in school someday. If Jesus doesn’t return first, this remaining generation will have conversation pieces and coffee-house recounts of what happened when the world down-sized, or what happened when a superbug attacked the entire world.

I myself recall being so excited for 2020 because I had studied what the Biblical numerical meaning of the ‘number twenty’ meant and had read it meant ‘perfect waiting’. I was mesmerized by that because we had a double measure of ‘twenty’, and also we have always known 2020 means ‘perfect vision’. I began last year with visions of grandeur dancing in my head, #perfectwaiting #perfectvision girating through my hopes like a cheerleader. Then last year changed everything; the pandemic happened, and the world was reworked.
There was a scrimmage and Generosity won out. The battle began, a war ensued, and Generosity was the Ringleader. A Superbug attacked and Generosity fought back. What Satan intended for evil, the Lord used for the good of His children, and Generosity showed up. I wonder if Satan was huddled around a hot pit of burning coals heaped on the banks of the Lake of Fire, rubbing and warming his hands, in awe of his ingenuity at shutting the whole world down. I wonder of the surprise and anguish and jealousy he suffered as he watched the children of the Lord throw themselves all in to helping one another make it through an epic time. As every dollar came in, every roll of toilet paper rolled in, every mask arrived, every meal, every provision, every offering collected, every act of Generosity marched forward, I wonder if his black hole sank as our hearts cheered. Every blessing saturated with God’s favor. What a year. What grace!