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Lord for His safekeeping, and thanksgiving
is in order. Rather than buying insurance,
we who have a living Saviour to
watch over us are more insured than ever.
My recent experience has taught me
to take better care of the life God has given
me. There is the human responsibility under
God’s sovereignty.
It teaches me, through the injured toe,
that life is frail as David has discovered
through his illness in Psalm 39. Therefore
one must use time wisely, to live productively
for the Lord and to hasten unto the
coming of the Day of God.
It teaches us all who luxuriate in good
health to be thankful unto Him. Bless the
Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His
benefits.
Now to the non-Christians. Those
who are outside Christ live a precarious
life. They are under the oppression of a
blind fate. In their daily livelihood they do
not have the trust and security in a God
who watches over us. They get the fortuneteller
to choose a good day for their travel.
They buy travel insurance not to assure
them of no accident but rather to meet with
the accident and get some compensation
from it. I call this negative insurance. What
a fearful and insecure life! Let me urge you
to receive the Lord Jesus, the Son of God,
to be your Saviour and you will be freed
from the darkness of a life without God
and without hope in the world (Eph 2:12).
“Man’s goings are of the Lord.”
Though he cannot understand the Higher
Will of God that changes his course, he
knows that under God’s guidance, all things
work together for good to them that love
Him. Amen.
Are The Haves Responsible For The Have-nots
(Message delivered at 8.00 a.m. Service on 19 March 2000)
Page 218
Text: Lev 19:9-10; Mark 7:10-13
Restated: Are the rich responsible for the
poor
IN THESE DAYS of fierce competition
for a living, we are hearing more and
more of the importance of upgrading,
going regional and global and entering the
rat race of e-Commerce. Every message by
the politician is on riches and more riches.
We rarely hear of caring for the poor. The
poor are not in the parlance of the rich and
mighty. In this rat race, the poor are rather
left out. In fact they are the more exploited.
The small fish are eaten by the big.
It is only when you turn to the Bible
that you find the poor remembered by a
just and merciful God. There is plenty of
teaching on taking care of the poor, both
in the Old and New Testaments.
Moses says, “If there be among you
a poor man of one of thy brethren within
any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord
thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden
thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy
poor brother: But thou shalt open thine
hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend
him sufficient for his need, in that which
he wanteth” (Deut 15:7,8). This statement
is reinforced by the Apostle James in the
NT, “If a brother or sister be naked, and
destitute of daily food, and one of you say
unto them, depart in peace, be ye warmed
and filled; notwithstanding ye give them
not those things which are needful to the
body; what doth it profit Even so faith, if
it hath not works, is dead, being alone” (Jas
2:15-17).
Now, let us turn to the first part of
our Bible text, “And when ye reap the harvest
of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap
the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou
gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And
thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither
shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard;
thou shalt leave them for the poor
and stranger: I am the Lord your God” (Lev
19:9,10).
This law lies behind the gleanings
which Ruth, the poor Moabite daughter-