Rev. Bruinsma is pastor of the First Protestant Reformed Church of Holland, Michigan. “… Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. “ Proverbs 30:8, 9 “Feed me with food convenient for me.” Surely, this is not a sinful request we make to our God. It is not wrong to ask for earthly things. In fact, the request of this proverb is strikingly similar to the...