The 100%; Proverbs 22; Psalm 2

May the mumbling commence!

There is the ninety-nine percent and the one percent.  These percentages are brought forth because of the deepening disparity between haves and have nots.  To a human point of view, it can seem daunting, insurmountable, and unfair.

God sees things differently between the rich and the poor, between the royalty and the peasants.  God sees no difference between these groups of people.  Would that we could see with the eyes of Christ, the eyes of God, the knowing of the Holy Spirit!  Read from Proverbs chapter twenty-two:

The rich and the poor have this in common,

The Lord is the maker of them all. (Verse 2)

One day, the rich and the poor, the royal and the commoner, the famous and the forgotten will all have to face the Lord and answer for their actions.  Our Maker will ask us what we have done with the talents given to us. 

We will have to answer.  And, the more resources that we had, the more we will be held responsible.  And, if you are a Christian, you are a child of God.  You are a son or daughter of the King.  We are royalty.  With this in mind, read from Psalm Two:

Now therefore, be wise, O kings;

Be instructed, you judges of the earth. 

Serve the Lord with fear,

And rejoice with trembling. 

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry,

And you perish in the way,

When His wrath is kindled but a little.

Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him. (Verses 10-12)

Be wise.  Be instructed.  Know that you do NOT know it all.  We have much to learn from the Word of God and from each other.

Think and speak and act with the attitude of a grateful servant of the Lord.  Rejoice.  Kiss the Son.

Now, here’s a good question: What does it look like to kiss the Son, to kiss Christ Jesus?  It looks like clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, visiting the imprisoned, and nursing back to health the sick. 

It looks like learning the language of immigrants so that we might help them understand and be understood – translation. 

It looks like supporting single parents in their ongoing struggles.  It looks like adopting orphaned children – orphaned by death and by other living deaths that their parents choose.  It looks like opening your home to foster children – for a time, until they are ready to return to their biological families.

Remember from Matthew 25 – “Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.”  To care for the most vulnerable in our society is to kiss the Son.  These are the actions that will be more comfortable to account for than most of the rest of the things that we do with our lives – the things we do for a living, the money we earn, or the toys that we buy.

So, let’s be responsible with our knowledge and our privilege and our resources.  Let us show each other and the world around us what it means to act like children of the King of all the universe.

Enough mumbling for now…

Peace Out