He Adds No Sorrow With It

Most things in life have some kind of 'price tag' or 'downside' attached to them. Maybe you have an idea of what it is upfront but most of the time you find out later. Commitments have a downside you don't expect. Medicines have side effects. Surgeries fix one thing but break something else.

Then there is this...

"The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it." - Proverbs 10:22 ESV

"He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed through the desert like a river." - Psalm 105:41 ESV

God's grace is this one way flow. We just position ourselves in or by the river. Sometimes that river just finds us at our lowest place when we have no strength.

It isn't a 'trade off'. It is a flow we receive or reject.

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