Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully, and will share the inheritance as one of the family. The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, but the Lord tests the heart. An evildoer listens to wicked lips; and a liar gives heed to a mischievous tongue. Those who mock the poor insult their Maker; those who are glad at calamity will not go unpunished. (Proverbs 17:1-5, NRSV)
The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart!
You can be the perfect follower of Jesus in the eyes of those whom you worship with. Those around you and society may say that you have your life set in the right direction and you are a model for the rest of society to follow. Yet you could be as Jesus described the Pharisees,”White Washed Tombs”.
We can not look upon someone and know them as God knows them. Gods knows all of our thoughts and what makes us do the things we do.
So follow where He leads and take care of the poor, and love the world as He has loved you.
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