Proverbs 13:23
“Much food is in the tilling of the poor...”
This is such a powerful truth! So much good has been created throughout our society from the faithful and diligent work of those who at one time or another were considered…poor! Many of them have been the very ones whose tenacity and ingenuity… have transformed our economy and society as a whole!
Every single day I hear of these amazing success stories of folks who at some point in their lives, found themselves in an impoverished and seemingly hopeless scenario…and yet…despite their present position…they somehow dug down deep within themselves…found a gushing fountain of courage to go after a dream…and relentlessly followed that dream until it became a reality!
Andrew Carnegie, said that as a child he would pray that he could go to sleep to forget his misery of living on the street at night, and working the boiler rooms in the day. He went on to build Carnegie Steel, become the richest man in the world, and eventually sold his company to JP Morgan for $480 million…which in his day was more money than anyone could ever imagine possible! John Rockefeller once worked as an assistant bookkeeper for a produce company for a mere $ .50 cents a day, went on to build Standard Oil Company and become the world’s first billionaire.
Proverbs 13:23
“But there is that which is destroyed for lack of justice.”
I recently was listening to a documentary film on the country of Columbia, SA. They were interviewing the minister of the Department of Justice. He spoke quite frankly concerning the ongoing war that they continuously are fighting against the cocaine cartels across the country saying, “A country can survive disease outbreaks, it can survive political upheavals, and it can survive even poverty. However, it can not survive a lack of justice!” Of all the underdeveloped countries in the world, there are very few that lack the necessary resources to advance both the economies and people of their individual countries. But in each case, it is not the lack of resources from which these countries suffer. It is the lack of a steady and unmoving foundation of justice upon which they can build a prosperous nation.
Indeed, justice is the primary foundation of any society. It must be the one aspect of life that everyone can depend upon. It must be blind to money, friendship, and power. It’s only influence must be upon establishing protection for everyone, regardless of their status or class in society. It is justice that creates peace. It is peace that allows people to create, innovate, and labor in their particular area of talent, opportunity, and interest.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Without justice, courage is weak.” It is courage that creates entrepreneurship, doctorates, moral statements, inventions, and wisdom. It is justice that establishes courage, and it is courage that maintains justice. It is imperative therefore that justice prevail throughout the whole of society in order for the whole of society to prosper, else it will be completely undone.