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| Health And Wealth Be Damned! |
| Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
There is a branch of Christianity that is convinced that lack of health and wealth is a discipline against your stubborn sin, or worse yet, an evidence of your lack of faith. Good luck convincing Job of that, but let's leave him aside for the moment.
Christ was deeply loved by the Father, yet He had no place to lay His head, and had to fish for money because one of His disciples was a thief with even what little He had been given. Jesus hungered and thirsted. Jesus suffered poverty, disgrace, and persecution. Life was often "unfair" for Him. He was hassled, misunderstood, spit upon, and beaten. Yet this didn't mean that He suffered because He lacked faith and/or obedience. For Christ was faithful to the end.
Somewhere in God's infinite and immutable love for us is an allowance for poverty, shame, and pain as He hammers out His will and glory upon the anvil of our life. So let none of us accuse God, or each other, of lack of faithfulness or love when we suffer poverty or poor health. Both Job and Jesus demonstrate that one can be perfectly righteous and still suffer greatly.
The lesson we must learn from this is that the principle gifts of Divine love are spiritual blessings not temporal ones.
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posted by Alan @ 11:30 AM   |
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