Where no oxen are, the crib is clean:
but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
Plowing with oxen makes for larger harvests. The livestock barns are messier, but the harvest barns are bursting.
The mess of blessing is the best problem to have.
Everything has problems. The clean crib is an empty crib. The occupied crib comes with dirty diapers. While problems are inescapable, some problems are better than others. In other words, everything costs something, but somethings cost too much. Barrenness is too much to pay for cleanliness. Sterility is not worth paying for peace and quiet. Self-imposed infertility is too much to give up to gain self-actualization. Emptiness is too high a price to pay for hygiene. A man without teeth has no cavities, but he also can't eat steak. A house without children has less milk on the floor, but it also has less birthday cakes on the table. A life without work has less pulled muscles, but if also has more weeds in the garden.
Everything costs something. Some things are worth it.
Everything has problems. Some problems are better than others.
The Bible tells us which problems to have. It commands us to pursue certain problems. It isn't enough to merely accept the fact of problems, it is the willingness to pursue MORE of the right kind of problems.
Mo' talents, mo' problems, but the servants who multiply their problems by multiplying their talents end up receiving rewards and commendation for their faith and faithfulness while the ones who attempt to reduce or eliminate their problems by burying the problems they have end up receiving a tongue-lashing from their Benefactor. They have their small problems taken away and inherit a Hell of a lot bigger problems for all their trouble.
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