It amazes me even still how Holy Spirit encourages me by simultaneously ministering from several verses of Scripture that wouldn’t seem to be necessarily connected. I was going to Scripture to strengthen myself in the Lord, and He took me on a whirlwind tour that suddenly started with Colossians 1:5b-6 (AMP)—

In the world today poverty is an important issue. People are poor in money, spirit, education, healthcare, etc. The origin of poverty has been theorized to be a lack of education, a lack of training or patterning, or a lack of opportunity. Poverty, then, is riddled with much theory and speculation.

These days, folks that actually experienced the Great Depression of the 1930s in their late teen-early adult formative years are a rapidly vanishing breed. These people, the parents of my generation, also experienced the rationing days during World War II, just a decade later. Because of those experiences, they left their children a double-edged legacy of sorts. Truly, “more is caught than taught,” as the saying goes.