Try a Little Poverty Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Try a Little Poverty--------------------------------------- Date: 7/28/2000 Keywords: "blameless" "perverse" "poor" "rich" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Proverbs 28:6* Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse. Question Why are poor and blameless better than rich and perverse? Is the answer obvious or obscure?   Practical help This verse says what may not be obvious. Namely, there are benefits to being poor. Poor folks, for example, can't afford computers, let alone cable modems or DSL for high-speed downloads of graphics. But don't pity such people. With their technological poverty comes insulation from Internet porn and other Web addictions. On the other hand, as Jesus comments in the Gospel of Matthew, it's not what goes into your heart that's troublesome, only what sometimes comes out. Still, there's no denying the time-honored computer axiom: garbage in, garbage out. So if you're tempted by Web porn, act poor. Give up your computer, or at least your Internet connection, if only for a few months. Then consider whether it's worth it to wean yourself back to computer riches. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2000 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.