doing my bible study lesson tonight, i came across these verses from Proverbs, a book i don't always find so inspiring:
"Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, 'Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it' - when you have it with you."
Seems like a no-brainer sort of reading, doesn't it? Yet, I think we need to hear it, live it, especially as a nation. How much good is it within America's power to do? And how much good is withheld from others?
"Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, 'Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it' - when you have it with you."
Seems like a no-brainer sort of reading, doesn't it? Yet, I think we need to hear it, live it, especially as a nation. How much good is it within America's power to do? And how much good is withheld from others?
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Tom Harrison
Countries and people alike have a moral responsibility to help the others around them. Granted, Sanctimonious, we can't collectivize the farmfields and burst open the vaults. Good thing that's not what the verse is saying.
What I mean to say is that we have a moral obligation to help our neighbors, rather that involves lending a circular saw or donating money to deserving charities. Our governments, too, have a moral obligation to make sure that we hold up our collective responsibility to make sure that suffering shall be ended, or at least drastically abated.