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One of the interesting facets of the ways that God works is that He tends to buck tradition in order to work out His plans. This could be perhaps a message to the enemy (Satan) that no matter how clever his schemes the Lord has the upper hand. It also shows the folly and vanity of man about his own plans to accomplish a set goal (such as choosing the king of Israel with the story of David).
There are certain things that seem to parallel or intersect among what we may call prudent planning in a "worldly" sense and applying scripture with the same admonitions in our everyday lives and decisions and plans that we make. This is something which seems to be ignored; for instance the blessing of a marriage ( Prov. 18:22) being a cross cultural thing it applies to everyone; the same could be said for long term planning of finances. The flipside is that those who disobey such things are basically under a curse. Children are said to be a blessing from God ( Psalm 127:3-4); and those who would attempt to terminate a pregnancy (leaving aside what some would call extreme circumstances for now) would be under wrath. Thankfully any and all sins once confessed and repented of can be forgiven.
One thing our "politically correct" mindset has done is negate the importance of a work ethic. Hence; the poor and disadvantaged are generally not looked at as those who can tenaciously survive with whatever skills God has given them.
This attitude of course also affects immigrants; and in fact is clearly insulting those who have taken the time to use the proper legal means toward citizenship. The whole situation now also makes it convenient to never come to agreement to allow any increase or specific number of legal immigrants to be stipulated. Passing off money and making people dependent is at best a short time solution; and with the level of graft and waste basically is a band aid on the conscience of those giving.
One of the interesting facets of the ways that God works is that He tends to buck tradition in order to work out His plans. This could be perhaps a message to the enemy (Satan) that no matter how clever his schemes the Lord has the upper hand. It also shows the folly and vanity of man about his own plans to accomplish a set goal (such as choosing the king of Israel with the story of David).
There are certain things that seem to parallel or intersect among what we may call prudent planning in a "worldly" sense and applying scripture with the same admonitions in our everyday lives and decisions and plans that we make. This is something which seems to be ignored; for instance the blessing of a marriage ( Prov. 18:22) being a cross cultural thing it applies to everyone; the same could be said for long term planning of finances. The flipside is that those who disobey such things are basically under a curse. Children are said to be a blessing from God ( Psalm 127:3-4); and those who would attempt to terminate a pregnancy (leaving aside what some would call extreme circumstances for now) would be under wrath. Thankfully any and all sins once confessed and repented of can be forgiven.
One thing our "politically correct" mindset has done is negate the importance of a work ethic. Hence; the poor and disadvantaged are generally not looked at as those who can tenaciously survive with whatever skills God has given them.
This attitude of course also affects immigrants; and in fact is clearly insulting those who have taken the time to use the proper legal means toward citizenship. The whole situation now also makes it convenient to never come to agreement to allow any increase or specific number of legal immigrants to be stipulated. Passing off money and making people dependent is at best a short time solution; and with the level of graft and waste basically is a band aid on the conscience of those giving.
Let us not be double minded.
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