A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. | ||
| Proverbs 28:3 | ||
| If someone who is poor oppresses someone else who is poor, like a hard rain, he’s a big drip, he’s all wet. Certainly the poor should have compassion upon the poor. We are poor in spirit. We realize the poverty, the inadequacy of our own lives. Therefore, we should be compassionate and forgiving of the problems, mistakes, and weaknesses of others. In Matthew 18, we read of a king who forgave the debt of a man who owed him the equivalent of ten million dollars. Once exonerated, however, the man found a person who owed him the equivalent of two thousand dollars and demanded full payment. When the king heard about this, he said to the man he had forgiven, “You will be cast into prison until you pay the full ten million dollars because, although I forgave you much, you wouldn’t forgive another man little.” We have no right to hold anything against anyone else because we’ve been forgiven so much. So if I oppress others, come down on others, heap condemnation on others, I’m like the poor oppressing the poor - and I’m all wet. Pastor Jon Courson. | ||
