Proclamation:
“Do not eat the food of a begrudging host, do not crave his
delicacies; for he is the kind of person who is always thinking about the
cost. ‘Eat and drink,’ he says to you,
but his heart is not with you. You will
vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.” Proverbs 23:6-8 (NIV) The King James version says, “… For as he thinketh
in his heart, so is he ...”
Explanation:
These words
were written under the influence of The Holy Spirit of God by King Solomon. Here Solomon records the sayings of the wise
men of his day. He warns the people not
to dine with stingy people who invite them to dinner. The host, who begrudges their guest a meal,
will calculate how much they eat. They
may have invited you but you are an unwelcome guest. If you accept the invitation, you will regret
it and wish that you never had because the thought of being unwelcome is so
disagreeable. Your after dinner “thank
you” will be just empty hollow words.
The problem is that the host is not who or what he says but he is what
he is thinking.
Application:
That which we think is who we are inwardly and that is who
we really are. We are not who we think
are or wish that we were, but as we think, that is who we really are. We are not the person that we say we are; we
are the person that is reflected by our thoughts. We will be judged for our thoughts in
addition to our spoken words and actions.
If we lust after someone in our thoughts, we have sinned and already
committed adultery with them. (Matthew 5:28)
The Lord God sees our heart and knows our thoughts and our intentions.
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