Proverbs 30:9

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about contentment:

Proverbs 30:9 (ESV)

lest I be full and deny you

and say, “Who is the LORD?”

or lest I be poor and steal

and profane the name of my God.

What happens when we are hungry?  We will eat anything.  What happens when we are full?  We don’t want to eat anything ... mostly!!   Note what Solomon states about this in other proverb:

Proverbs 27:7 (ESV)

One who is full loathes honey,

but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.

Solomon wants us to to realize that we need to be careful to be in a place that we might deny God and we might profane God.   One of the areas of Christian belief is that our hunger is changed.  Note:

Matthew 5:6 (ESV)

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

We need to be careful not to hunger and thirst for the wrong things.  We need to be in the right place to hunger for God.   When we get satisfied with the world, we find ourselves no longer hungry for righteousness.   That is Solomon’s warning.