Wise giver

For Friday, September 8, 2006
Proverbs 3:28

Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again,
tomorrow I will give it" - when you have it with you.

We saw how the wisdom that is taught to man in the Proverbs is the wisdom that God possesses.

When teaching on prayer in Luke 11:5-9, Jesus uses the example of a man who needs bread to entertain a guest, and bangs on the door of his friend's house to ask that his friends provide the bread. Jesus says that the friend will provide the bread because of the man's persistence, notwithstanding the friendship that the two have.

God of course, answers our prayers for that which we need out of his mercy and love for us. If even we will give things that inconvenience us for the sake of the needy person's persistence, how much more does our heavenly Father provide for our needs to his harm from his love.

God always "has it with him" and in his wisdom he provides it for all who need it. So we act wisely in this regard, we act in with godly wisdom.