Proverbs Chapter 14
(Pro 14:4) Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox. Those of you that have been around CHBC, you have heard me deal with this verse. Quite simple to understand! I grew up in southwest Iowa where there are hog farms as far as you can smell. Boy! Get down wind of that and you will know it. To me that was the worst smell I could think of as a young boy, but to the old farmers that was the smell of money. They didn’t mind putting up the smell, because they want to produce hogs. We in the church want to produce disciples, but we don’t want to have to clean up after them. We don’t like that they don’t fit in our Christian culture. They don’t talk right, they don’t dress right, and they don’t act right. When you have children in your home, don’t the 1st few years create mess? Bottles, spit up, and those nasty diapers, but the joy that they bring is beyond measure. This is the same with spiritual birth we have in our churches. We live in a day and age where you hear women say “I don’t want kids because it will mess up my body.” That is like some local assemblies, they don’t want their body messed up!