Natural Man vs. Spritual Man

...her feet abide not in her house.

                                  Proverbs 7.11

 

She is not satisfied at home.

She is looking for something.

There is a hunger in her heart.

 

Aren't we like that sometimes?

 

One writer said that a most serious problem

plaguing all mankind

is evident in our inability

to spend one hour in a room alone.

 

This speaks to our emptiness.

Our boredom.

Our struggle with that great void, "Vanity".

 

Another proverb speaks to the solution.

 

A good man is satisfied from himself.

 

When a man who was once natural becomes  spiritual

he learns to draw from inner and hidden resources.

He can take an inner desert and make it

a well watered garden.

 

He finds an enabling to do this

through the inner illumination of faith.

 

 He can find a way

where there ‘seemeth to be no way’

and it becomes his habit.

 

Such a one as this learns to make his home

a happy home - just like that virtuous woman

of Proverbs who stays at home

and “she looketh well to the ways of her household,

and eateth not the bread of idleness.”

                                     from Proverbs 31