Friday 6 October 2017

Accountable


Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you. Your wealth is ruined and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days! Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who reaped your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter. You have condemned — you have murdered — the righteous man; he does not resist you.
James 5:1‭-‬6 HCSB

There is so much injustice and usary, however James spells out the truth: you cannot rob from the poor amd use them, their God sees and will repay.

We have stripped out forests bare in greed, polluted our rivers and oceans and killed our wildlife, for temporary grand plans. We are here today and gone tomorrow. Who will applaud us, the destroyers? What will history say about this generation? What will out God say when we stand before Him?

Will we hear: "Begone from Me you evildoers"? Or "Well done good and faithful servant"! I know what I want to hear. What am I doing about it? And you?

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