The Beatitudes: Part 10 – Woe To Those Well Fed
Jesus says, “Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry.” In the parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25, Jesus is speaking about the judgment of God. Those who refuse to meet the needs of the hungry and the thirsty, the imprisoned and the sick and the naked will be rejected by God. Jesus says, “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” We all live within a tension, regardless of how much money you have. The tension we must all wrestle with is this: “am I giving enough to those who are hungry and in need. We must not compare ourselves to others, rather we must go before the Lord and ask what He would have us do. Some day we will stand before the throne of God and we will have to give an account for the way that we used the resources He entrusted to us. Remember we are stewards of what we have. It all belongs to the Lord. For this reason, Jesus tells us, “What sorrow awaits you who are fat and prosperous now, for a time of awful hunger awaits you.”