Proverbs is probably my favorite book of the bible for lots of reasons. One of them being it’s intensely practical, even 3,000 years after it was written. Like this verse:
“It is good for workers to have an appetite; an empty stomach drives them on.” Proverbs 16:26
Great verse that perfectly explains why we’re having some of the issues we’re having in our country-men have lost the motivation of hunger. We’ve lost the need and ability to eat what we kill.
The basic problem is there are way too many guarantees in a world that was never meant to have any. Most folks think it’s good to have guarantees because it takes the pressure off of men, but the truth is it’s had the opposite effect. Guarantees have had a debilitating effect on men. It’s robbed them of a significant part of their makeup.
The reason is men are designed to hunt, designed to gather, to go out and deal with the pressure of getting food. Men need to have a little weight on their back to keep them on the right path and help them focus. What we’ve got to learn is that you are never doing a man a favor by removing responsibility from him.
Men don’t have to fear living without guaranteed employment and no bid contracts, in fact they should embrace it. The reason is a man experiences a special sense of satisfaction when he does it on his own instead of having it handed to him.
So, if we want to begin to reverse the trend of living in world lead by boys who can shave, we need to let them go hungry.
