14 The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
We need to be cautious and discerning about what we watch on TV, what we listen to on the radio, what type of conversations that we keep near and choose to walk away from and company with what we expose ourselves to…. these things of the world just doesn’t feed our mind but they also feed our spirits…too much of a bad thing could kind of be like a building block to saying… well if that’s OK then this is OK and then it gets worse and worse and then the next thing you know you’ve crossed a couple of moral lines. I don’t watch the same shows or listen to the same music the same way at all since I came to the Lord – there’s a lot of things I used to do that I stopped because I ask myself ..would that be pleasing to Him? Does He delight me when I do this or that? and if the answer is no, then I gotta wonder what direction my moral compass is pointed at and if I want to go that way or not and usually it’s a hard no.
17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love isthan a fattened ox and hatred with it.
I also read this in another translation that said it’s better to have a bowl of vegetables with a friend then a steak with someone who is evil.
I really want to say that any meal is better so long as you have the bread of life with you… I’m talking about the bread that if you eat which is similar to the water that you drink you will never thirst again. If I keep company with people who are like-minded and want to talk about the Lord and spiritual things then you would find me very happy at a porridge party (I got that from going to Alpha) because who wants to sit around a bunch of people who blasphamize and do nothing but gossip ?it could even make the best foods taste horrible if you’re in the wrong company.