Better

(Pro 15:17 KJV)  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

I was thinking about our pastor and his gifts.  He is a good man.  He is a godly man.  I think if he had a gift or wanted a gift it would be the gift of evangelism.  That is the thrust of every sermon and just about every Sunday school lesson.  He’s concerned about your soul.  I was asking myself if he ever had an original thought and it was as if the Holy Spirit brought this verse to mind.

Original thoughts are fine.  Being willing to be faithful to the word is even more important.  So in the figurative language of Proverbs, it’s better to have plain vegetables and truth, than to have great thoughts that are corrupted.

So?  In an ideal world, you would have both, but we all know we don’t live in an ideal world.  Usually we have to settle for the better rather than the best.  Of course, the thing that makes it better is that it is anchored in truth.