The gospel to the poor of the earth...

Last time, I wrote about my disillusionment with the worldly systems of thinking. Basically, our natural tendency is to learn how to "play the game" of the worldly system of thinking. The worldly ways of thinking produce a "survival of the fittest" mentality that go completely opposite of Heavenly wisdom.

However, God has given us an "out" from this type of thinking. Many well-known (and lesser known) Christian saints have talked about the value of detachment from the world. The quickest way to do this as followers of Jesus, is to spend ourselves on behalf of the poor of the earth (who cannot possibly return the favor in the natural).

God gives some incredible promises to those who will spend themselves for the sake of bringing the Gospel to the poor. Isaiah 58 links spending ourselves on behalf of the poor to the revelation of God's glory and healing. Luke 4:18-19 and other passages directly ties the anointing to spending ourselves for the poor.

Other passages such as James 2, 2 Corinthians 8-9 and Hebrews 11 talk about spending ourselves on the poor related building and exercising prevailing faith. Most of all, radically giving ourselves like this deeply touches God's heart.