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Honey From The Rock Psalm 81:16 |
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Up On The Roof! This entry was posted on 10-16-2006 and is filed under Devotional. "Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, than in a house shared with a contentious woman" (Proverbs 21:9 NKJV).
Solomon should know! He had 700 wives and 300 concubines (or as one little boy in Sunday School opined, "300 cucumber vines"). The picture here is quite funny. In his commentary on Proverbs, Donald G. Hunt pictured a browbeaten man "gathering his few things together and in living in the corner of the flat housetop." Whatever the weather, the poor man preferred to live "up on the roof" rather than in the warmth and comfort below with a contentious wife. Now ladies, men can be just as cantankerous to live with so stay with me here! The point that is made is that sometimes our bent to strife can be so hard on our mate that we actually drive them to other places in the house - even "up on the roof." God wants us to live in peace and harmony. Wherever you find strife and contention - even in the church - you will find certain people "gathering their few things together" and going somewhere where they can find a moment's peace and quiet. Why is the person or persons "up on the roof?" Because of the thoughtless and selfish actions of the person or persons living beneath the roof - the house roof or the church roof! Prayer/Song: Dear Lord and Father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways!/Reclothe us in our rightful mind, in purer lives Thy service find/In deeper reverence, praise. Drop Thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease/Take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess/The beauty of Thy peace. (John Greenleaf Whittier) |
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