3 Foot Forks (Proverbs 15:15)

Hope can be the determining factor in how one lives their life.

"All the days of the desponding afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and foreboding], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of the circumstances]." Proverbs 15:15, Amplified

Where is your hope? There are those in this life who have no hope in the hereafter. One must have some expectancy of good to come or hopelessness will consume leaving an empty husk. Jesus is that hope for myself as well as many others.

My mother told me an allegory that went like this: "There was a man who had died. He lived a pretty moderate life so the angel who met him at the gates of the afterlife told him that he could make a decision as to where he would spend eternity. The man nodded his head and followed the angel. They came to a long hallway with a large pane of glass on either side. On the other side of the glass in each room was a long table full of food. It was the most exquisite set up he had ever seen. In the first room, there were people who were starving for they had three foot forks tied to their fingers. These people were starving because they could not directly reach their own mouths, so they would try to drop the food into their mouths, but most found its way to the floor. The man was petrified at the thought of spending his eternity like this. So he turned to see what awaited him in the next room. In this room there was a similar table with a similar spread. These people in this room had the same three foot forks tied to their fingers, yet they were not starving. These people were feeding each other across the table. They were caring more for one anther than themselves."

What we must realize is that everyone in this world is given a set of circumstances. It is the hope, or lack thereof, that determines how we conduct ourselves. Will anxiousness consume you until you starve, or will you take the time to feed those around you and know that you till will be fed?