Ronil .
An in depth look at the greed of many in business and politics! Reminds me of the phrase, "Powerful corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." It does seem like Solomon's observation in Proverbs, that bribes work. People appear to have high standards and lofty goals when they enter positions of power, many proclaiming that they will be different. Your point that these positions are to be servant focused, is a point long disregarded in public service offices around our country and the world.
I appreciate your point that stewardship is simply taking care of that which is not ours. In Biblical times, it was duly noted along with other historical facts regarding nations of power, that many "Kingdoms" crumbled when they no longer took care of their poor. It appears that even in recruiting employment to certain "classified" jobs, that the appeal to one's greed and how they respond or shows a propensity toward avarice is almost a high criteria to be selected. John Perkins, in his book, "Confessions of An Economic Hit Man" certainly bears that shocking revelation regarding him being targeted at a young age as a candidate for ripping the natural resources of countries around the world at the expense of the poor.
As you briefly pointed to a resolution of the planets disposition towards a more powerful and greedy existence, it can be disheartening to think that, legislation of any kind, "No Child Left Behind", "Faith Based Initiatives", "Lottery to improve Our Schools", even "ObamaCare", that somewhere lurking in the bushes surrounding the good heartedness is the dark corporate lobbying, politician pocket percentages, to assure that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. We need a heart change. The understanding that we all are accountable to a higher judge when all is said and done. Perhaps what your essay did for me is challenge me to commit to servanthood, as an antidote to greed. Maybe if it starts with the two of us, it will spread faster than an epidemic like plague!
As you pointed out, before we even read an account of selfishness's entrance into this world in the book of Genesis, greed was present. Perhaps the last book of the Bible points to a time after it, when the call comes to the 'TRUE STEWARDS" to get away from that power, and don't be engaged in the pop culture of controlling others by ruling all of the resources of the world:
3"For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality.…and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality." Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;…"
Revelation 18:3,4
Here's to an unselfish Kingdom soon to be a reality… |
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