If I were a rich man, ya da, da, From Fiddler on the Roof all day long, I'd piddy, piddy pum? The fountain of riches, marked out in Proverbs 5 is acted out in Fiddler. A loving family working through the real struggles of the society which is given them is the richest blessing a society can have.
When we put them out of our culture by making it difficult for them to survive, it is a judgement of delugiounous proportions. Our preservation as a nation and a culture, has been that we have made provisions for the different economic levels and the different people groups to survive in this land. Every time that we, in the world and throughout history have devalued the reality of love and walking humbly with God we have lost sight of the real riches and God, in his mercy shakes us up to bring us to our senses. I can site so many historical examples that I don't feel that I need to. I have told you children about the earthquake in Jamaica that Grandma Del and Auntie told us about. God does shake things up we have lived through 9/11 and that horrible tsunami. We all are to blame, when one area of the world is shaken up. Jesus said to those people who were asking about the tower at Siloam, "You will also be destroyed, if you repent not." He was pointing us to the purposes of suffering for us and for those around us. To call us to repentance and to cleanse us from our wickedness so that we can have greater access to God, personally, corporately, nationally and globally.
When we are aware of what He values, our fountains are blessed. Our barns may not be filled, but our hearts are.
Where is the blessing? God tells us in Proverbs 5 through Solomon.
I imagine, poor Solomon looking through the keyhole, out into the humble humanity and stating the truth that he was never able to attain and that was that the real riches come in attempting to be monogamous and sufficed with life. He who could, by his own confession, never find satisfaction, no matter how many women or meals or beautiful sights he could own or have; was the writer of Proverbs 5. Be blessed and be focused and don't look away, because in the looking away from the happy home is a hook, which, once it is imbibed; brings weights and sins and continuous disaffection, resulting in God's ultimate judgement, if left unrepentant.
When we repent, we have a fresh and new relationship with God. When we are in Christ and cleansed, we are a new creature and He (as it were) runs to embrace us and draw us from the love of our sins into deeper communion with Himself. There is no greater gift that God has given us than the gift of HIMSELF.
Proverbs 5:18. Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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