Bragging On Jesus

Proverbs in 365 Devotions
 Proverbs 12:9 Better to be lowly and have a servant than to play the great man and lack bread. R Aylor It’s probably easy to read this verse and all of a sudden hone in on how Solomon says it’s better to have a servant… and start making inferences and judgments against Gods word while missing the truth. To have a servant in an acceptable way biblically can be found a number of ways. Heres a few: * A servant who works as an apprentice. (Elisha to Elijah) In this situation the servant would have a desire to show respect to their mentor. * A servant who is working off a debt. * A servant might have been someone who had no land in Israel and was willing to be hired out as a servant to have a place to live and food to eat. * In all these examples the one who has a servant does so because he was gracious to the one who serves him. The text calls him lowly… He is a humble person. * We see this in the first example as a mentor in teaching his apprentice. * The second by let