Pass Me The Veggies Please

DEVOTION PROVERBS PASS ME THE VEGGIES PLEASE Prov 15:17 17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred. NIV Is this also not a continuation of the idea from having a continual feast, having little, yet having a cheerful heart? Now we have love also. What matters how little any of us have if we know the Lord? Does it really matter if we own a fattened calf? This calf is the indication of those who live in an abundant state of self-pleasure, whose desires run after the world and its ways. This is not so much about the evil despicable acts of hatred and violence prompted by a darkened heart under the full influence of Satan, but of an even more insidious behavior. The total lack of trust in and obedience to God is at stack here. Once again this speaks of the full benefit of trusting God with all aspects of live, including the amount of wealth contained within the purse of person. Here we see God considers it far better to live with a smaller portion of wealth, able only to afford vegetables or merger dinners as long as the believers are experiencing love for God, love for each other and love for the lost as he does. Does he not say that love covers a multitude of sins? There is no judgmental behavior in love and therefore perfect peace and harmony exists within. Not so with those who cannot bear trusting God and spend their efforts in what they believe to be self-preservation by storing up wealth, living in fear of losing it and thus guard against any truly close encounters that love spurs within people. This mistrust in God and in others prompts this behavior of hatred as it is opposite to the behavior of love. What offerings of this world are worth the lack of love? Is any amount of wealth worth experiencing hatred? The answers to both those questions have to be none and no. What can replace the love of God? What can replace this pure undivided love between believers? It appears the desire to own that fattened calf would replace both. Vegetables or beef, pass me the veggies please.