I can’t forget how when I worked at sprouts there was a homeless man outside w/ mental affliction he would walk in circles and we would talk about our similar struggles. Hearing voices and the torment of it and the meds not helping him
I saw people day in and day out entering that store mock that man and gossip about his condition spending insufferable amounts of dollars on groceries. (Some not all by any means.)
The thought struck me that most of these attend church, the Saturday spent mocking this man the next day lifting hands in praise. I wonder on that day how many that held the poor in contempt will lift their eyes in hell the same people they looked down upon now in glory above them with Jesus.
Now asking them for water when they didn’t give a drop or a morsel to them. Sermon after sermon you heard and Christ didn’t dwell in your hearts and you despised the poor man that was far from any religion you thought you would never make it and wrote off. But now how the tables have turned.
Their condemnation is just.
**Ezekiel 8:18 (ESV)**
“Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
**Luke 16:24 (ESV)**
“And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.'”
**Matthew 25:42–43 (ESV)**
“For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.”
**James 2:3 (ESV)**
“and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, ‘You sit here in a good place,’ while you say to the poor man, ‘You stand over there,’ or, ‘Sit down at my feet,'”
**Proverbs 17:5 (ESV)**
“Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.”
I wonder on that day if those people will see that man from sprouts and remember.
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