I love to eat fruit, almost every kind of fruit. I pretty much eat some fruit at every meal and for snacks. Fruit has helped me lose weight and get control of my blood sugar levels. My doctor, however, has warned me about eating too much fruit. It seems that fruit has enough sugar in it to be dangerous in the large quantities that I eat.
Don’t we tend to overdo a lot of good things. We receive some benefits from something and get carried away with it. People have started to exercise and feel healthy, so they do more exercise. They become obsessed with it, overdo it, and wind up injuring themselves. Or some other people may start a short term diet to lose a little weight, but they go way beyond their original intentions and threaten their health. And other people become obsessed with their jobs after a little success.
The writer of Proverbs 30 makes two requests of God when he writes: “O God, I beg two favors from you before I die. First, help me never to lie. Second, give me neither poverty nor riches! Give me just enough to satisfy my needs. For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.” The writer acknowledges that we are prone to forget God if we have too much. He also acknowledges that we are inclined to take matters into our own hands if we don’t have our needs met.
God will provide for our needs. Let’s be thankful for that and content in what He gives us.
Reluctant Retiree 