06/21/23 GOD'S WAY IS DIFFERENT

06/21/23 GOD'S WAY IS DIFFERENT

I watch in amazement as the affluent not only sit back in complacency while the unintentionally poor suffer because of systemic oppression, but the affluent often use the systems of politics, commerce, law and human need to advance themselves over the unintentionally poor. 

I have the same reaction when I see the medical community, the legal community, the food suppliers AND the supposed Christian community hold back important and essential supply, as they grasp for money. 

I believe in free market and capitalism but I also believe in love, kindness, compassion, justice, personal responsibility. I realize that morality cannot be legislated and I realize that immorality cannot always be legislated against.

This is where true salvation comes into play, though we often see the unregenerate acting in a more compassionate way than many of those who profess faith in Christ. 

Injustice and self promotion will continue to grow in our society. Innocent and good people ("innocent" and "good" in the accepted sense of the word, not in the theological sense) will suffer because of sin (greediness, oppression, hatred, selfishness). 

I watch as professing Christians take advantage of other Christians who are going through difficult times. Christians are not required to be communistic in their finances, but neither are they allowed by God to be hardhearted and selfish.

1 John 3:16-19
16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.