We are all creatures with ultimate worth! We are all entitled to the benefits of the he bountiful banquet while living on this side of heaven.
This truth goes beyond rational arguments limited by my five senses, social norms, taboos, mores, isms and cultural manipulation. The legal, religious and medical statutes that state how things ought to be is only an attempt to enforce spiritual and psychological slavery (oppression and needless suffering) but the wise endure, not out of fear or compliance, but because God’s vengeance will not be aborted when its payback time. God paid a hefty price to redeem us and he is not about to let us trade our birthright to the lowest bidder. We have to look at our life through heaven’s eyes and we will see that we are all equal. We all own the land and its resources.
Our social role is to treat each other, as we would love to be treated and recognise that each person was created to contribute to the richness of endless possibility to God’s grand design.
The function of true religion is this: “take care of the orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep ones self from being corrupted by the world.”*
James 1:27- The Good News Bible
The kind of fasting God wants is this: “Remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free. Share your food with the hungry and open your homes to the homeless poor (that includes the working poor). Give clothes to those who have nothing to wear and do not refuse to help your own relatives.”*
*Isaiah 58: 6-8
This truth goes beyond rational arguments limited by my five senses, social norms, taboos, mores, isms and cultural manipulation. The legal, religious and medical statutes that state how things ought to be is only an attempt to enforce spiritual and psychological slavery (oppression and needless suffering) but the wise endure, not out of fear or compliance, but because God’s vengeance will not be aborted when its payback time. God paid a hefty price to redeem us and he is not about to let us trade our birthright to the lowest bidder. We have to look at our life through heaven’s eyes and we will see that we are all equal. We all own the land and its resources.
Our social role is to treat each other, as we would love to be treated and recognise that each person was created to contribute to the richness of endless possibility to God’s grand design.
The function of true religion is this: “take care of the orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep ones self from being corrupted by the world.”*
James 1:27- The Good News Bible
The kind of fasting God wants is this: “Remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free. Share your food with the hungry and open your homes to the homeless poor (that includes the working poor). Give clothes to those who have nothing to wear and do not refuse to help your own relatives.”*
*Isaiah 58: 6-8
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