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Wanting What God Has Not Given Us – (Proverbs 30:21-23)

Wanting What God Has Not Given Us – (Proverbs 30:21-23)

Daily Proverbs

For three things the earth is perturbed, yes, for four it cannot bear up: for a servant when he reigns, a fool when he is filled with food, hateful woman when she is married, and a maidservant who succeeds her mistress.

Daily Bible Study
Part of our sin nature is we want things that God has not given us, whether that's material possessions, wealth, title or prestige. Our sin nature can cause us to crave after things we are neither prepared to handle, nor deserve to have, and have not earned. Moreover, we have to recognize that this dark world in which we live promotes this type of thinking. It promotes the striving after things we do not need, we have not earned and the things which God has not given us. And when that happens the consequences are usually bad for everyone involved! And that's the heart of the message of these passages.

We also suffer when we get something we're not ready for, cannot handle, or something we really did not deserve. When that happens, it can bring more stress, bickering and chaos into our lives because it was received through our rebellion toward God and because we cannot adequately handle the position, which we are ill-equipped to occupy. And this is what Agur is speaking about in the passages above. Those times when we seek after things God has not given us. Those times when our sin nature causes us to use dishonesty and the immoral tactics of this fallen world to gain what we have not yet earned. Doing so for no other reasons than covetousness, pride, ego or out of spite for others.