Proverbs 11:24 “There
is one who scatters, yet increases more; and there is one who
withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty.”
A paradox is not two
waterfront piers next to each other; that would be a “pair of docks”. Kidding
aside, the word paradox means a tenet or
proposition contrary to received opinion, or seemingly absurd, yet true in fact.
As in the saying “To get, we must give.” I read that this is not the
world’s method for attaining prosperity, but it is the paradoxical message of
today’s verse, as well as that of Christianity in general.
An article noted some of the
many other paradoxes in the Bible related to this basic truth. To really live,
we must die gets its paradoxical meaning from Galatians 2:20, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I
live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me”. Likewise, to save one’s life, he
or she must lose it gets its meaning from Luke 17:33, “Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever
shall lose his life shall preserve it”. Similarly, to be wise, we must
become fools receives its connotation from 1 Corinthians 3:18, “If any man among you seems to be wise in
this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise”. The saying, to
reign, we must serve comes from Matthew 25:21, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful
over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things”.
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