The Reality of Bitterness and Righteous Action in the Church and the World

There's a certain type of wickedness called "bitterness".  It forms in the pits of our stomachs and minds when we think too long and hard about injustices, real or imagined.  I suffered it for oh, so long, and I see that the American type of poor and homeless for the last several decades (until CoVid changed the balance) has almost certainly been stuffed with people suffering it, for which primary cause they do not have any indoor home.  Mainly.  And they refuse to accept admonishment to straighten their nervous systems into ability to help themselves, mainly.  Many, of course, are in different situations, but I speak of these embittered souls now.  Caught in a cascade of helpless suffering, they cannot think straight!  No one helps them with admonishments or corrections or logics, but some of them have their egos boosted and their emotions coddled by well-intentioned, wrong-headed therapists.  Church, do not be part of the problem!  Re-read the New Testament and learn what God would have to do to His enemy and to His Church.  To His enemy, we are to circumvent it as much as we can with gentle craftiness, and we should employ the helps we have toward the Church - to sing Psalms, admonish and teach, to sing hymns and spiritual songs and to rebuke and exhort!  Even if the few Worldlings could be helped with true help such as this, they would still have a bigger problem, and there would be the danger of their false belief that their temporal, soulish help is all they need, taking away their physical push that might make those of the World who will eventually become Christians to cry out to Master Jesus all the sooner.  We don't know, after all, who is going to be justified by confession and belief in accordance with the Scriptures, but our own reactions can be objectively definite given what we do know - to the Church certain things, including shunning, and to the World, a less radical approach, seeing they have bigger problems than their behaviors, and seeing that we, the Church, have the ability to push against our sin in an all-encompassing way, but God's enemies do not.

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