We take for granted
that God exercises judgment. We read
about it in both the Old and the New Testament.
But have you ever wondered why God exercises judgment? In other words, to what purpose? What is the point of the judgment?
I ran across this
Scripture today and the light went on.
Here is a place in Scripture where God Himself gives at least one reason
that He exercises judgment. Take a look.
Ezekiel 30:19(NKJV)
Thus
I will execute judgments on Egypt, Then they shall know that
I am
the Lord.”’”
So one of the
reasons is to prove who is boss so to speak.
He uses judgment to punish, correct, and generally bring people and
nations back in to line. That brings up
some interesting questions in my mind.
One of the questions
is this: does providing too much charity interfere with God's judgment on an
individual?
Now let me be clear, I am not talking about letting people starve to death. I believe we should do what we can to make sure that people have food and shelter. But is it really compassionate to provide a middle class lifestyle to those who haven't earned it? Middle class lifestyle? Yep, by providing things like cell phones, air conditioning, cars, cable tV,etc. Things that are luxuries that people have to earn.
By doing so are we actually interfering with God's judgment?
What am I talking about? There is plenty of Scripture in both the OT and NT that talks about what you need to do to be successful in life and if you don't do those things you will not prosper.
Such as seek wisdom, understanding, and knowledge and your ways will prosper as we are told to do in Proverbs. What is the implication here? That if you don't do these things your ways won't prosper.
So if we have people who are not doing these things so their ways are not prospering and we step in and provide a middle class lifestyle for them anyway, are we not directly contradicting God's plan of how things should work? Are we not in our "human wisdom and compassion" attempting to negate God's judgment?
Something to think about isn't it?
Now let me be clear, I am not talking about letting people starve to death. I believe we should do what we can to make sure that people have food and shelter. But is it really compassionate to provide a middle class lifestyle to those who haven't earned it? Middle class lifestyle? Yep, by providing things like cell phones, air conditioning, cars, cable tV,etc. Things that are luxuries that people have to earn.
By doing so are we actually interfering with God's judgment?
What am I talking about? There is plenty of Scripture in both the OT and NT that talks about what you need to do to be successful in life and if you don't do those things you will not prosper.
Such as seek wisdom, understanding, and knowledge and your ways will prosper as we are told to do in Proverbs. What is the implication here? That if you don't do these things your ways won't prosper.
So if we have people who are not doing these things so their ways are not prospering and we step in and provide a middle class lifestyle for them anyway, are we not directly contradicting God's plan of how things should work? Are we not in our "human wisdom and compassion" attempting to negate God's judgment?
Something to think about isn't it?
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