2 Kings 6: 27
The king replied, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?”
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In other word's the King is saying, if you wanted help, you wouldn't be a drinker? That all you believe in is being an alcoholic? How can someone like you be helped? Perhaps it is a way of saying, you ruined your life from alcohol and God is no longer helping you? And this is starting to sound like one of those soap box preachers on the streets of Chicago. But so what. And there is a hint that the King is saying the woman believed that what was good for her and her life was alcohol (the wine press) when she should have at some point realized something better than that? A way of saying, you took the easy way out in life and now you expect help? You set up the own conditions for failure, how am I to get help for you? If you didn't realize it along the way in life how are you going to realize a better life now? Anyhow, I like the Kings comment. And you do meet people in life who try and get you to believe that a drink is the answer to everything? But here we have a King saying otherwise.
"Why isn't the lord helping you? Because all you want comes from the winepress?"
The Bible also states that those have little have little for a reason? Because what little they had they didn't try to make something more of? Because they believed they had nothing and that God gave them nothing to start off with?
And yet, that is the word of God, but so is this, "Give us this day our daily bread."
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