help, generous, mercy

This morning here's where I read...

Ecclesiastes 6 (When Solomon wrote this book, I think he was a bit depressive toward the end of his life),

Proverbs 19 (another book written by Solomon, a bit more encouraging),

1 Peter 2.

There's a lot of good stuff in each of these chapters. But in all of that, this is the only verse that came up off the page...


Proverbs 19:17 If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord - and He will repay you! (NLT)


or, in the ESV - Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and He will repay him for his deed.

Here's the paraphrase in The Message - Mercy to the needy is a loan to God, and God pays back those loans in full.


So, what does that mean for you?

I wonder why it came up off the page for me today?