Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Encouragement Study: Edition #12

Proverbs 11:24-26
One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. People curse those who hoard grain, but they pray God's blessing on those who are willing to sell.

-He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed. I like to read this sometimes and think 'he who encourages others will himself be encouraged.' The Hebrew takes it back to say who "makes drunk, satiates, satisfies" others will himself be (and fill those back in here). I don't think God wants me to go and makes others drunk and make myself a drunk, but it does show what God does mean, in that, to make someone full and satisfied, or to make happy. And that simply shows that I would be encouraging someone and thus be encouraged myself.

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