Worse situation

Kienyui · May 3

I have heard people quote Matthew 26:11, “the poor will be with you always,” many blame and insults me of my situation for years today. They are happy when we suffer and cry daily hunger, pains, homelessness and and other forms of misery. Other claim that if God wanted to end poverty, He would do so. Many are quoting Matthew 26:11, John 12 and Mark 14 to justify shutting door s and kicking us to the streets.

They ignores the majority of passages from the Bible passages like these:

· “Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing homeless children.” (Isaiah 10:1-2)

· “Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you….The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.” (James 5:1-6)

· “God has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.” (Luke 1:52-53)

Today, I creep to a church and someone used Matthew 26:11 yet again to justify he cannot give me any help.

Jesus said in Duteronomy 15, that there will be no poor person among you if you follow the commandments God is giving today—commandments to forgive debts, release slaves, and lend money even knowing you won’t get paid back. Deuteronomy 15 continues and says that because people will not follow those commandments, there will always be poverty

Jesus reminded us that God hates poverty, and has commanded us to end poverty by forgiving debts, by raising wages, by outlawing slavery, by restructuring society around the needs of the poor. He was reminding the disciples that charity and hypocrisy will not end poverty but keep poverty with us always. He is reminding his followers that he is going to be killed for bringing God’s reign here on earth, and it is their responsibility to continue the quest for justice.

We have just celebrated Holy Week and the Eastertide, remembering the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. If we take the message from Matthew 26 seriously, we have to commit ourselves to really understanding and then doing justice. We must see that poverty is disobedience to God’s will and it is a duty as Christians to bring good news to the poor. We have to put the cross back into our theology and social justice witness knowing full well that resurrection follows crucifixion.

The good news of the Bible has been reduced to an individualized acceptance of Jesus Christ as a Lord and Savior, severed from his mission to the world. We deny that the poor are at the center of God’s concern, ignoring that Jesus was a leader of a revolutionary movement of the poor, who rather than mitigating the unfortunate inevitability of poverty called for a movement to transform heaven and earth.

It is years of excruciating pains. It is 4 days with food, yet anybody I talk to see be as an outcast, a forgotten being and as someone suffering because of his sin. The fact that I was born Muslim does not render me sinner rather I give glory to God for my salvation.

Pray for my situation so that I may atleast have even a single meal a day. I you do have a meal, be grateful. Hunger is such a bad thing

Love and prayers

BrotherTony · May 3

All Scripture used here is to be from the King James Version. Please correct this. This is just a heads up before the moderators give you a reprimand.

Kienyui · May 4

18 hours ago, BrotherTony said:

All Scripture used here is to be from the King James Version. Please correct this. This is just a heads up before the moderators give you a reprimand.

Thank you for enlightenment