Cursed Rather Than Blessed

Scripture

If you give to the poor, your needs will be supplied! But a curse upon those who close their eyes to poverty.

~Proverbs 28:27, TLB

Quote

Financial generosity can enhance material security.

~Timothy Keller

The world thinks the opposite of what scripture teaches. The world believes that the more you save, the more you have whereas scripture teaches that they more you give the more you have. The biblical way to take care of the poor is to do it by community or neighborhood. In the biblical world, there were not so many huge cities where people could get lost in the crowd. The church in Acts became a community of believers and they looked out for each other. They shared what they had in common so that there was no needy among them. This is not communism, this is Christian community. I am not going to get into the federal welfare system, which is a financial nightmare and debacle. I will say that welfare has to be local to be effective and it has to be administered by local citizens not the government. The people who are getting a check from the government are not getting any better off, just more and more dependent on government which is not good. All the federal government has done is create urban plantations. Problems are never solved by money alone.

Aside from all of the above, why should you be generous with those around you? Well, it all depends: do you want to be blessed or cursed. Do you really think the community speaks highly of misers and tight wads? How many misers do you know that are highly praised by their neighbors? People mock and curse misers. I visited a friend in Cleveland, Ohio when I was eleven years old and there was a man living just down the block that the kids called “Miser Poluski.” The kids would taunt this poor soul by throwing penny’s in the yard. When he ran out to pick up the penny, they pelted him with rocks or whatever was handy. Some things are universal. Courage and bravery are admired in every culture and selfishness is loathed in every culture. No one admires or respects a selfish person. Selfish people bring a curse upon themselves.

Its obvious that the Washington insiders have conspired against the president. Democrats and Republicans have worked together to make it all but impossible for Trump to stay in the White House. Washington, Hollywood, big business, the media and billionaires hate him but he has been the best president we’ve ever had. The only one in recent history that looks out for the middle class and for middle or rural America. It is no question, they cheated on every swing state the weak kneed Republican like Shelby helped them. Shelby not only put a knife in the back of the president, he has betrayed the state of Alabama. Folks, we need a miracle. Speaking of betrayal, what happened to FOX news? The majority of Americans want Donald Trump as their president but people like Shelby and the dems don’t care what we want. What man called Rick and Bubba this morning and said he got in a conversation with a woman. She asks him what he thought about the election and he said, “I think the democrats cheating.” She agreed but then said, “I don’t care.” They don’t care how they retain power, only that they survive the fray.

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