Monday, August 23, 2010

The Sheep and The Goats

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This blind homeless man, named Vernon, eloquently speaks for God IMHO:



The interview is from the YouTube channel of InvisiblePeople.tv which I came across yesterday evening.

Mark Horvath, a former homeless person, has been on a mission for the past couple of years,
criss-crossing America and interviewing homeless people:



I believe Mark is on a mission for God.



What the heck is wrong with modern America?

Do you all lack the resources to provide a home for Jean and her children?



Some folk just don't seem to get it:



You don't want to care and share?


So be it.

What you all have is not yours in the first place:

A traditional theological understanding of stewardship rests on the first verse of the 24th Psalm: "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof." The earth, all of it, and all that it contains, belongs to God. We are users and managers. Stewardship says that we are not owners in any absolute sense.

If everything is taken away,
then maybe people will figure it out:

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'

"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." [Matthew 25:31-46]



"Preach Christ everyday. If necessary, use words." - Saint Francis of Assisi

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