Humanities Condition
People in poverty are wicked. We want to think that if we just helped out a little they would make better decisions, but typically they are unable to make good choices because their hearts are wicked.
Not all of them, but typically those who I come into contact with on a regular basis are wicked people. Now Paul is encouraging Titus to rebuke people in the church, but I wonder if not the same would hold true of the lost. Might they need a strong rebuke?
I'm not sure what choices led up to their struggle to pay their bills, but I know their current decisions are not assisting them. Smoking a pack a day, buying drugs, buying alcohol, buying snack cakes, candy bars, and pop are wicked choices when the desires for those things trump paying an electric bill or rent and then putting their children in danger of homelessness.
Created about 1 year ago
