Good morning. We are back in Proverbs. We will skip the verse about a beautiful woman who lacks discretion being like a ring of gold in a swine's snout. The desire of the righteous is only good. Too many times it's only what is good for us or our families. There is one who scatters, yet increases all the more, and there is one who withholds what is justly due, but it results only in want. As in the play Hello Dolly when she was quoting her late husband: "Money is like manure – it's no good unless you spread it around". (I saw the play in Mobile with my parents, staring Carol Channing). If you are generous to those who are in need, God will bless you immensely. If you are stingy, your purse will have holes in it. Verse 25 says: The generous man will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered. And then the infamous verse: he who troubles his own house will inherit the wind (starring Spencer Tracy). The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls. Your fruit is a tree of life. You are wise, and you will win souls. If the righteous will be rewarded in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner. Sometimes though it doesn't look like it's going to happen. It seems like the wicked get away with everything, and the good people are doomed to failure. But in the end righteousness will prevail. Father thank You that the reader is prosperous and is able to water those in need. His/her fruit is a tree of life and his/her wisdom wins souls.

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