Pro 24:27 Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
I suppose you could shorten this Proverb to “put first things first.”
Of course, to do that we’ve got to think things through.
In the case of buying property in the ancient world, you’d want to make sure it could produce wealth before building a house on it.
Similarly, one might want to find a good source or several sources of income before buying a house.
In the case of spiritual application, it’s important to make certain things duties such as private prayer before public prayer, reconciliation with brothers and sisters before worship (see Matthew 5:21-26), honoring mother and father with finances before giving to church building projects, and so-on.
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