Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the Morning Mindset.

Carrie Green here. I'm so glad you're here with me to get your mind aligned with the truth

of God's Word today. I would love to hear from you. I receive emails here and there from

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All right, today we're looking at Proverbs 23 verses 6 through 8 and this passage is a wonderful

example of one of the things I love about the Proverbs. Solomon paints imagery. He paints pictures

and scenes that help us to understand the deeper principles that he's going after. And today,

I believe he's giving us some insight about discerning the motives of others and being wise,

in light of what we see there. Let's read Proverbs chapter 23 verses 6 through 8. It says,

Do not eat the bread of a miser nor desire his delicacies. For as he thinks in his heart,

so is he. Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart is not with you. The morsel you have eaten,

you will vomit up and waste your pleasant words. So there's this elaborate scene that Solomon

has painted here where a person has invited you to dinner and he's placed all these delicacies

on the table for you. And he's encouraging you eat and drink and you're even responding with

kind words, with pleasant words, with perhaps even flattering words because you're grateful to be

included. But what he's saying is when you know a situation like this has come about and that the

person doing it is a miser. What is a miser? What's a person who hordes their money? It's a person

who doesn't spend any more than necessary to get what it is they want. He's saying, you need to

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