Posted on 02/25/2009 4:02:55 AM PST by tenger
Good will come to him who is generous and lends freely, who conducts his affairs with justice. Psalm 112:5
How would our lives change if we sought to practice generosity and justice in everything we did? I believe the results would be astounding.
Being generous is fairly easy to accomplish, and it goes beyond "not being stingy." Generosity is ungrudgingly giving something that you have to others so that they are more comfortable. It can be deal with money, food, service, time, and material goods. Of course you can even expand it to being generous with your knowledge and wisdom. As I said, generosity is easy.
Justice is a little trickier. It's tricky because it's not as obvious as generosity. The opposite of justice is injustice or unfairness, and we can usually spot that (people being abused, mistreated, or cheated come to mind). In today's verse, conducting your affairs with justice seems straightforward. Honesty. Integrity. Doing what's right.
Former Senator Alan Simpson from Illinois said this, "If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters."
That's a fair assessment of justice in business dealings, don't you think?
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