Yesterday’s bible study made me totally rethink the idea of the infamous “Help Committee” at many churches. (This is the group usually responsible for deciding whether or not a family or individual asking for money from the church will get it.)
I know if I insert my own words too much in this post….I might take some heat!! So instead I will just quote a few verses from scripture and let your minds do the rest.
Psalm 37:25 “…I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or His children begging for bread.”
Oh MY GOSH!!! What a powerful verse!
Pair that verse with this one Proverbs 30:8 “Keep Falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but only my daily bread.
I think we live in a time where we believe that only having our “daily bread” is not nearly enough. We look at our pantry and think, “I have to do something Quick we are almost out of food”(usually in my house that means “we are almost out of food that we like” and we run out and try to take care of everything ourselves. God is saying that He wants to take care of it and that actually…having only your daily bread- is not a problem at all. (This principle goes soooo far beyond the need for food, by the way) However, we make it a problem when we spend our money on things we don’t need and even on things we know we shouldn’t be involved in the first place.
I will also reiterate the above verse when it says that the righteous are not forsaken and that His children don’t have to beg for bread.
In all of my experience with seeing people put their hand out, (my experience, I will admit is not much) I can usually always trace it back to one of my new favorite verses in the bible, Psalm 37:25 “I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or His children begging for bread.” That may seem judgmental to some, but it’s the truth because it is written in the book of truth. The question then becomes “How do we fix it???” the answer in my opinion is “quit handing out money until you first hand out What it means to Righteous and to live daily as “His Child”. Maybe I’m wrong.
Thursday, February 4
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That is the approach that our helps committee should take " Biblical" We are to be good stewards of his money. Those that ask usually aren't all that needy sometimes even greedy and those that trully are needing never ask, but God makes their needs known to see that they are met.
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This is always a diificult issue for me. 1 John 3:17 says, "But who so has this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how can the love of God dwell in him?" The key words, I think here, are "brother," and "need." This is where our struggle sems to come. I don't have an answer here, I just think I see the problem.
ReplyDeleteI absolutly love what Roundboy said about How God sees that his Children's needs are met. I think if we are in a season of desparation and are crying out to God, and pursuing righteousness the way that we should be, He will send someone to meet our need without ever having to ask. I know that this has happened to our family several times. Actually this Week!!!
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