Wednesday, January 26, 2005

bible verse: proverbs 3:27-28

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?

posted by Elizabeth at 11:56 PM  

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Sanctimonious Hypocrite said...

I think this is an admonition to individuals. Giving away other people's stuff isn't generosity.

Tom Harrison

9:03 AM  
Elizabeth said...

I don't think so - just like any organization has collective funds and collective resources to direct (like a church, for instance), nations also have a collective identity and collective responsibility. that seems pretty obvious to me.

9:37 AM  
Anonymous said...

I think that this is an admonition to everyone and everything.

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.

11:01 PM  

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