Jeremiah 7:5-7 New International Version (NIV)
5 If you really change your ways and your actions
and deal with each other justly, 6 if you do not oppress the
foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in
this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, 7 then
I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your
ancestors for ever and ever.
What is the true measure of our character? Certainly it is
not merely how we act "at church." The real test of our character,
our godliness, is our partnership with him in his work of redeeming the lost,
forgotten, downtrodden, and broken. When we live only for ourselves, when the
"have-nots" are left so far behind, a culture collapses upon itself
because it lacks the heart of God, and people become jealous and resentful of
one another.
Thought for today:
Do I only seek to befriend people who can reciprocate my giving?
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