Where no oxen are, the crib is clean:
but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
Life will be full. It is inescapable. It will either be full of emptiness or full of increase. You must choose for yourself this day which kind of full you prefer, but God does not leave us without a word concerning His preference. He tells us which problems to pick. We should choose fullness and fatness over shortages and leanness. We should prefer the problems that overflow over those which dry up. The increase of Christ and His Kingdom is like leaven through the loaf -- always a bit more like warm bread. His provision fills to overflowing so much so you feel like you're missing many of them. His harvest is more than your arms can carry. You don't have barns large enough to corral them all. It is a good, full life. What a blessing.
The busyness of blessing is better than the stillness of sterility.
The strength of an ox increases everything. It ups production in the field and in the barn. There would be less crap to deal with without the ox, of course, but there'd be less harvest to be had as well. The barn would remain clean twice over. No crap to scoop, but no crops to keep. The blessings of Christ compound. They bring about more responsibility, but also more bounty. The blessings of sin are short-lived and leave the eater hungrier than when he sat down eat, the drinker drier than when he first swallowed, and the sinful soul leaner than when he first gorged himself on indulgence.
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