The Richest 85 People Own as Much as the Poorer Half of the World (3.5billion people)

Rich and Poor
What is your reaction to this? 

I'm sure many, if not all of you felt a deep sense of injustice. But I would not be surprised if some felt nothing at all. It is the kind of world we live in today that finds getting behind some agenda or act of justice rather... embarrassing. 

I don't know anyone that is "ok" with this article, but it would surprise me if people took action. Persuasion and rhetoric these days is cheap and lifeless. Everyone is afraid of being manipulated.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that misguided passion has caused immense trouble for the human race. Postmodernism truly mocks passionate antagonism. "Justice" seems as fruitless. Primarily this is because our avenue of Justice has been through politics, but the fractured nature of government has left such a bad taste in our mouths that we refuse to place hope in them.

Who can we turn to when justice is not carried out?
Secularism complicates justice because our reasoning capacities are in conflict with our understanding of human rights and value. If objective truth doesn't exist, on what grounds could we call some people in the wrong and some in the right? Secularism calls us bigots if we assert our opinions on one another. True, many people in hindsight change their minds about things and interpret wars and conflict and injustice differently, but nobody truly thinks justice is 100% subjective.

But back to the article.

Who then will stand for injustice? What is going to be done about this? 

God is not apathetic. So neither should we be.

If God controls everything, why doesn't He take money from the rich and give it to the poor? 

Now we are asking the real questions.

I always looked at this argument as puzzling. Our culture wants absolutely nothing to do with God, but if he can help us then why hasn't he? We "deserve" his help, but we don't want anything to do with his authority. 
This of course doesn't work.
Parents are the providers of children, but also their authority. 
Calling God unjust or unfair is nothing new to him,

Matthew
26 Jesus answered them, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, you have been searching for Me, not because you saw the miracles and signs but because you were fed with the loaves and were filled and satisfied.

27 Stop toiling and doing and producing for the food that perishes and decomposes [in the using], but strive and work and produce rather for the [lasting] food which endures [continually] unto life eternal; the Son of Man will give (furnish) you that, for God the Father has authorized and certified Him and put His seal of endorsement upon Him.

28 They then said, What are we to do, that we may [habitually] be working the works of God? [What are we to do to carry out what God requires?]

29 Jesus replied, This is the work (service) that God asks of you: that you believe in the One Whom He has sent [that you cleave to, trust, rely on, and have faith in His Messenger]

The Purpose of God is not to feed people, but to save people. This is why christian charity devoid of talking about Jesus is pointless. If what we believe is actually true, then giving people eternal salvation trumps temporary food and comfort by... infinity.

This being said, it is time for the Church to stop spending thousands upon millions of dollars on bigger buildings, softer pews, and nicer suits. 

We are not Americans, we are Christians. We are never ever to be in the top 95%. We are the justice of God allotted to America. What does that look like?

Let us go to the poorest of poor and give our lives to them. Feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and meeting with prisoners is feeding and clothing and visiting Jesus. 

  

Sylvia

If sin was legit, where are the judgements?

This question came up during a conversation I was having with Zack.
It stemmed from abortion. 

I learned that at 8 weeks the OBGYN will take a sample of the baby's skin tissue and the child will flinch from the pain. I also learned that in 38 states a woman can be driving to get an abortion and be involved in a car wreck with kills the child. The driver of the other vehicle will be charged with Fetal Manslaughter - he will be charged with the murder of the child.

Talk about a double standard. 

This is not about abortion. 

I am not here to tell you about abortion. The question is, if abortion and other sins are rampant in our country and very prosperous countries like those in Europe, why are they not "burning" in hell? Or having flaming stones fall on them like Sodom and Gomorrah? 

This is a great question. 

One thing I love about the scriptures is that the answers remain the same. It never changes to be relevant. It is not swayed by culture and changing tides. 

Romans 1:

 24Therefore sGod gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to tthe dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for ua lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, vwho is blessed forever! Amen.

26 For this reason wGod gave them up to xdishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, ymen committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, zGod gave them up to aa debased mind to do bwhat ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know cGod's righteous decree that those who practice such thingsddeserve to die, they not only do them but egive approval to those who practice them..

So have these nations, culture, and people who do not repent suffer judgement? Yes.

The judgement they suffer is the hot steaming iron burning dry their conscious. Their hearts grow cold and minds grow dark. Is it any surprise that the rise of sin has partnered with the rise of existentialism and postmodernism? Utter confusion in the midst of the highest elevation of self. Everything is left to the interpretation of the individual, and nobody knows how to fix their lives. All under a vague blanket of "here take this". 

This isn't some new dilemma, if anything this gives the Bible more credit as truth! And the true judgement is that these removing of conscious result in an inability for someone to repent. How can someone repent and be saved if they feel they have done nothing wrong?
Only if the Holy Spirit does His work. And He works when we pray and intercede. 

So take heart!
For where sin abounds, grace abounds even more.

5 Picture of what happened in 2013

Married my best friend

Endured crowds

Felt new feelings

Dressed up

Saw this a lot