Proverbs 11:17
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul:
But he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
A returning theme for these kingly proverbs is: ‘What goes around comes around.’ The saying can also be reversed to say, ‘What doesn’t go around, doesn’t come around’. Could sometimes our poverty be the result of our own withholding?
The generosity that we bestow on our neighbors usually comes back to shower us a hundred times. The care that we dote on those in true need often finds its way back in the pockets of our hearts in the form of internal peace asnd contentment. And what is the true heart of the commandment? What is true religion, pure and undefiled before God? Isn’t part of it to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction?
Much is spoken about the old biblical laws. Do we even realize that the Instruction given us at Mt Sinai was weaved into a social system that actively cared for the less fortunate? In the sight of God, religion has never been some sort of abstract concept floating on a high intellectual cloud. In the sight of God, faith isn’t a passive thing, it is and active concept. That is the heart of the commandment. It was the Master who taught us that even our so-called religious sacrifices were not acceptable if we had no compassion for the poor. James and Paul concurred this principle by adding that even our fellowships are not acceptable in God’s sight if people in it are not taken care of.
Show me today a faith-filled person. Show me here and now a Torah observant, a spiritual person that religiously observes the commandment. Show me one who has studied; who has a good grasp and understanding of the weightier matters of the Word. Oh, I do not need to see them late burning the midnight candle studying the Word. I will know how spiritual they are by seeing how they react towards small people, small matters, and the mundane things of life.
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul:
But he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
A returning theme for these kingly proverbs is: ‘What goes around comes around.’ The saying can also be reversed to say, ‘What doesn’t go around, doesn’t come around’. Could sometimes our poverty be the result of our own withholding?
The generosity that we bestow on our neighbors usually comes back to shower us a hundred times. The care that we dote on those in true need often finds its way back in the pockets of our hearts in the form of internal peace asnd contentment. And what is the true heart of the commandment? What is true religion, pure and undefiled before God? Isn’t part of it to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction?
Much is spoken about the old biblical laws. Do we even realize that the Instruction given us at Mt Sinai was weaved into a social system that actively cared for the less fortunate? In the sight of God, religion has never been some sort of abstract concept floating on a high intellectual cloud. In the sight of God, faith isn’t a passive thing, it is and active concept. That is the heart of the commandment. It was the Master who taught us that even our so-called religious sacrifices were not acceptable if we had no compassion for the poor. James and Paul concurred this principle by adding that even our fellowships are not acceptable in God’s sight if people in it are not taken care of.
Show me today a faith-filled person. Show me here and now a Torah observant, a spiritual person that religiously observes the commandment. Show me one who has studied; who has a good grasp and understanding of the weightier matters of the Word. Oh, I do not need to see them late burning the midnight candle studying the Word. I will know how spiritual they are by seeing how they react towards small people, small matters, and the mundane things of life.
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