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The Summation of Charitable Giving

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The mantra of today is “Compassion to everyone”.  But compassion delivered without wisdom is no compassion at all.  How should someone know what to do and when?  The answer is to be wise.

If you want to understand charity, then understand this, Jesus is the answer folks.

People will think that they can listen to government and to social movements and know how to deliver compassion.  They will give their goods, money and time, to these organized establishments, thinking that someone else will do what is best.  “They are educated and devoted to delivering compassion.  Surely I can trust them.  Their advertisements are compelling, thus they must be right.”  So a great many say and do.  I will tell you by personal experience, there’s a lot of money to be made on the backs of the poor.

How many people see some apparent need and give without thinking?  Have they truly done God’s will?  Or have they just massage their conscience?  Have they truly understood the situation?  Or have they just wasted their resources on something false?  “I felt in my heart, it was a good thing to do.”

People will think they can read philosophy (That body of literature designed to teach social wisdom, the keeping of social order by logical restraint.)  and know what to do.  People will think that all kinds of charity is good, sound and best.  So they give and give without regard to wisdom. 

You cannot find the wisdom of God in the government, social movements, your own errant heart, or the philosophy of Man.

People will think they can look at history and know how to deliver what is pure and good today.  They look at how the poor and lame of yesterday were treated.  “We have created hospitals and charitable organizations we are far better than our ancestors!”  Really?

People may even read the words of the Bible and think that by these words they can decipher their own way through life.  “How much more the simple act of giving?”  What did the Lord say?  39 “You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” (John 5)

When will we learn that we can do nothing without him?  When will we understand that to deliver one aspect of God is not delivering the fullness of the Lord?  No, compassion without the wisdom of God is no compassion at all.  Such Things fall under the heading, “The works of Man’s hands”.  The good of Man it’s not the same as the Good of God.

Such attempts at Compassion actually deliver more damage than if we had done nothing at all.  But we feel good, don’t we? 

When will we stop being lazy?  When will we decide to reach out to the Living God, and remain his True servant?  When will we spend more time on our knees than praising ourselves for the good things we do?  A lot of activity is done, but uselessness is its fruit.  Look around.  With all the busyness of charity done today, is the world in any better position?  If you say yes, I suggest you look again.

We do some “good thing” and wander off into time thinking we are good people.  With a smile on our face we forget the one to whom we have shown compassion.  But we don’t see what happens when we leave.

But the good things that are done by a servant of the Living God’s Holy Son do not have that same affect.  If we ask him, wait patiently for the answer, then diligently deliver the things he gives, we can be sure that a true good has been done.

But Man is in a hurry to change his world.  He thinks that God moves too slowly.  He doubts that God will listen to his request.  Worse yet, comes the common understanding that man is expected to do all things good by himself.  (This is what you will find the Mormon Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, often the Catholic Church, and more and more many branches of the Christian church, saying.)  Even so, the good he thinks he has delivered is no more than a javelin through the heart.

People follow the examples of other people.  But are their charitable heroes servants of the Living God’s Holy Son?

So when will people consider what he has said to us?  “You can do nothing without me.”  I will tell you when.  They will serve the Living God when they stop trying to drag him down to their level, and ask to be raised to His.

Mark 12: 17

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You do not understand Christianity because you are not of it.  You use its basic tenets as foundation for your own law, which you freely break at will.  Therefore your own hands cover your eyes.

But you will testify that you use no such basic tenets for the law of man.  You say you are free men.  You will say that your laws are but logical sequence used to establish peace among men.  You say there is no obligation to do the things of Christ; there is only obligation toward a central strength to establish and retain peace among men.

All that you do is for the sake of the shape of the human body, and the place where we are caused to be.  Man’s desire, ability and history shape the things you love to call law.  Desire and history are sure and unbreakable (though they may be written in a variety of form).  But ability changes according to the ingenuity of man.  And so you willingly break your own law for the sake of expediency.  And corruption has therefore made you filthy.

The basic tenets of Christ are within your law because the shape of man requires it.  But your desire frustrates and explodes the law of Christ.  You nullify His law by adding to it for the sake of what you call advancement and convenience.

You cannot break the law of God.  The very shape of man demands obedience.  But you create more; and this “more” you are able to break.  Then you add to your folly by turning and blaming the law of God for your faults, which law is at the very root of your own.

Such things are not hidden now.  Such things will not be hidden then.  The law of God is established, unmovable and unbreakable.  But the work of man’s hands is futile folly; before it is written it is broken.

Return, he who has understanding, to “the laws of God undefiled”.  Leave the work of your hands.  Submit to the true law of Christ.  Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.