A Warning

 A warning.

In the book of James we read,

“Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you.  Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.  

Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.  

Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen 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 innocent men, who were not opposing you.” James 5:1-6.

Now there’s nothing wrong with being rich and having a lot of material possessions. The apostle Paul tell us,

“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” 1 Timothy 6:10.

It’s what you do with your wealth that is the problem. Do you use it selfishly on yourself or do you use at least a portion of it to help others.

The warning here is clearly to those who use their wealth selfishly. Those who have no compassion on the poor.

So my question is... Do you use at least a portion of what you have to help the poor?

Please think about it.

A Warning

A Warning
The Poet wrote,
                                    A possible conversation with God
 A Man:                                                   
“You exist!”
God:
Of course I exist!”
Man:
“But I couldn’t see you?
I couldn’t touch you?”
God:
         “I know.
          I wanted it that way.”

Man: “Why?”

God:
“Because I wanted you
            To have faith in me.”

Man:
“But you could have showed
yourself in the flesh.”

God:
     “I did.
      I sent my Son Jesus.
      He died for the sins of all who
      would believe in Him.
     I even raised him from the dead.

Man:
     “But that’s unbelievable.
      It can’t be true?”

God:
          “But it is.
           Why would anyone make that up?
And you had the choice.
          I gave you a freewill
To believe what you wished.
You exercised yours.

Man:
       “But you could have
        showed yourself to me.”

God:
      “I did.
       Through creation,
       Through my prophets,
       Through the Bible,
       Through My One and Only Son.
       I gave you a life time of chances.”

Man:
“So what will happen to me?”

God:
           Jesus said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”.  John 3:16-18.
                              “What do you think?”
Post Script
If Christians are wrong in what we believe no one has anything to fear. If we are right there are eternal consequences for those who do not believe.
Please think about it.