“For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.”
Our focus should not be on the unattainable goal of eliminating poverty.
Our focus should be on Jesus Christ, and on telling the world about Him in order to reduce poverty.
If we focused on Jesus Christ and sharing His Good News with them, we would be dealing with global poverty in the way Jesus instructed us:
Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.”
The blind…see
the lame…walk
the lepers…are cleansed
the deaf…hear
the dead…are raised up
–and–
the poor…have the gospel preached to them.
Socialists/Communists try to use the government to take money away from you and give it to the poor. Historically, that money ends up in the hands of dictators, not the poor. A case study is the United Nations’ Oil-for-food program, which resulted in money going to corrupt bureaucrats and Saddam Hussein, not poor people.
Jesus’ plan is to preach the gospel to the poor.
Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
That is the answer to global poverty.
So why did Jesus say, ”the poor you have with you always”?
Because there will always be people who reject Jesus Christ, even though He is the way, the truth and the life.
Now the scandal of global poverty mobilises an immense, angry movement. Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ,
Thanks for your comment.
[Somehow I doubt that Jesus Christ Himself is commenting on my blog :-) ]
Usually, when God wants to talk to me he does so through His Word or His Holy Spirit.
I’m motivated by love more than anger.
I hope, for your sake, that you are a follower of Jesus Christ and not Eckhart Tolle.
I’m sure the poor will be well fed and sheltered when they take that gospel to the store to buy their necessities.
QUIZ: Who said it —
Democratic leaders or Communist Party USA?
Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett:
Wrong! (But that’s the Democratic Socialist Communist Party sales pitch…)
Show me where our country’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, says that. It doesn’t. What it does say about the purpose of government, why governments are instituted among men, is to protect (secure) our God-given (Creator-endowed) unalienable rights:
Read Declaration 1.0, particularly the list that follows this:
And THEN read Declaration 2.0: