Most people I know have a desire to have everything, and not to lack a thing.  Life’s pursuit of happiness is woven in the lives of Americans across the country.  We go to work to earn enough to take care of our families with little thought of anyone else.  I don’t think it’s on purpose, but the poor get ignored primarily out of the indifference of we people who have. The have-not’s get ignored.  We’re to worried about paying our bills, making sure our cars are paid for, and our homes have heat, to worry about our neighbor in destitute states.

Since we’ve been taught so much by the American culture that we need to strap up our boots, and get to work to earn a living to take care of our families, that is what we have done.  It’s not a bad lesson to learn, but I would say it is incomplete.  Along with learning the necessity of work and responsibility we should have been taught the necessity of giving.

Proverbs 28:27 completes our lesson for a successful life.  A life without lack.  “He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.”  KJV This is a lesson that every person needs to learn and practice. This is the way to go through life without lacking anything.  Give to the poor and don’t close your eyes to poverty.

Be wise.