Allow me to share a small parable with you today: Ecclesiastes 9 [King James Version (KJV)]: 14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it [or that city] a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. 16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor mans wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. Cities represent places that have become cosmopolitan and metropolitan. In the excerpt above, what happened to this place that there were few men in it? Or could be it that there were many males but they had abandoned what it is to be manly? By inference, effluence belonged to those who also abandoned true wisdom. But within the walls of that city was a man who was wise, and by his departure from the ways and means of acquiring wealth among his peers wound up poor. Yet, when this same city was besieged by evil and when the inhabitants of that city realized that they had a resource among them that was priceless -- that is, a repository of wisdom, they sought out the poor man to help them save from the clutches of their enemy, what they had amassed. How many of us today are willing to become poor in order to be endowed with the wealth that is represented as wisdom that issues from the Father? Jesus has proffered that those of us who are last in esteem by our peers shall be first! The poor wise man ministered to his neighbors out of compassion, not requiring anything in return. Can we become like that in our hearts today? Meditate upon the meaning of this declaration by the Son of God: “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:01:09 +0000
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