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A Proverb A Day: Proverbs 27:23 Do you know where you stand? Financially?
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Education, Family, Money on August 27, 2010
Proverbs 27:23 state, “Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.”
Reading this proverb helps me to understand the necessity of knowing my financial status in this life I live. To know my balance sheet.
Too many times the majority of people step out into this world trying to keep up with Joneses, and we do so to our own peril. Do you know the state of your flocks? Your accounts, your means of income? You herds? How are they doing? Are you sitting well? Or are things looking bad?
No matter where you’re sitting the wise man still looks and takes account. The verse that follows says this: “For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endureth to every generation?”
Be wise.
A Proverb a Day: Proverbs 14:23 Stop just talkin’ and get to work.
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Education, Inspirational, Money, Work on May 14, 2010
Now this is the second day in a row that the word “work” has jumped out at me, and I love it. I love especially the way it reads in the King James Version: “In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury[lack of money].”
This tells me again that it’s not about how much you talk about what you’re going to do, but it’s all about what you get about doing. It is the doing that preceeds the profit. It says, “In all labour…”, that means in all the types of work you do, what follows it, is profit. From mopping floors to directing billions of dollars, if you’re working, you’re profiting. It doesn’t matter at all if you just talk a good game, if you’re not playing the game and playing hard, your life will be headed for poverty.
So stop talkin’ and get to work.
Be wise.
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