Proverbs 28:27 When God Says...I Say, AMEN!

When God Says...

“He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: But he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.” (Proverbs 28:27 KJV)

Extend an open hand or turn a blind eye. Those are the choices we are nudged by this passage. Generosity brings abundance. Selfishness overloads with curses. This warns that willful indifference carries its own dispensation of serious and ugly ramifications. When one closes his eyes to the plight of the deprived, both in the physical and spiritual in his proximity, he loses the capacity to bear fruits. His ground is cursed due to his apathy. He'd be like that fig tree cursed by the Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Jerusalem: “Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.” (Matthew 21:19 NIV). You don't want that 'many a curse'!

Being a child of the Most High God by grace through faith in Christ Jesus in a personal intimate relationship, not by religion, we are called to: “Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality” (Romans 12:11-13 NIV).

When we are generous, specially to those who have no means to pay back, we have this promise in the Word of our Lord Jesus Christ: “He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”” (Luke 14:12-14 ESV)

And I Say, AMEN!

Daily reflections by:
F. A. Frias
PFC Ministries

(When God says... I say, AMEN! is a provocative reflection of the Lord's holy Word. It intends to challenge every seeker of truth to dig deep into the core of the Word of Life to point every being to Christ Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith, and to draw revelations for change, for nourishment and for strength of every soul.)

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