Proverbs 8 verses 34-36 Meditations - It's Me, O Lord...Standing in the need of Prayer.

Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek. The Lord shows His love and mercy to those who make it the business of their souls to honor Him in their practice. Going to worship Him. Giving to the Kingdom of the Lord. When a person sins against the Word of the Lord, that is the sin of loving death. It is so dangerous to be those whose responsibility it is to work in the cutting room of the Word of the Lord. Making meals for those whose hearts have come to worship the King of Glory. As when the priest went in, unprepared and he died, that is the loving of death. When we make merchandise of the Word of God, we are the ones most in danger of loving death. Death to our souls can ensue and we may not even know it. It is almost as though, the ones who teach the Word of the LOrd have the most privy to the disentery, than those who eat it. The devil, himself sets up shop in the workshop of the Word of God to cut it in a way to damn men's souls. Annanias and Saphira lied to the Holy Ghost and their lot was death. Those who lie to the Holy Ghost and make merchandise of the people of God are the ones most in danger of loving death. There is help and healing for every sin of the soul and all who come to God in repentance can find cleansing and healing and mercy. But those who eat the flesh of the people of God, may be blinded to their own infirmity and love death and not know it until that day. Proverbs 8:36

The Blessed Man in verse 34 is seen listening to the LOrd and listening for the Lord. Where are You? He is saying. These obtain favor from the Lord. The imagination of David as being in deep thought and yet thinking about the Lord in that thought is a true one. How much else we can get caught up in, other than the goodness of the LOrd. All the more the more family that we have. We can spend our time thinking how to sow discord in the family unit. We can think about what someone else has that we don't have. David thought about all of those things in the light of the goodness of God. That is a discipline and a nurture of thought. Not what God has not given me, but what God has given me when He has given others that. That is finding life. Finding life in the circumstances that God has given to me. Am I a king? I can be humbled in the thought that God has given to me the privilege of shining His goodness in reflecting His mercy in my kingliness. Am I a pauper? I can reflect that God has given me the privilege of reflecting the humility of His Son coming to save us from our sins. God, in Christ has salvation for all stations in life, not just for the rich and those who can buy the Gospel. All stations. Listen for His Word in the place where I am.