January 31st, 2026
Actions and Beliefs are Consequential
The Bible teaches give and expect nothing in return. That God will get vengeance for you so you don’t have to.
That said, if you go to work and work 8 hours – do you expect a paycheck or expect no paycheck? You have given your time, effort, and care to help solve problems. I personally think you should be able to expect something in return for your efforts.
If you couldn’t expect anything in return – what would the implications be? It might reinforce slavery as useful – don’t have to value or pay for that as useful. How precedent is set matters. Less requirements to respect the worker is not all workers respected.
On a different note if you do community service – you might want to live up to the altruistic motivations of God or religion. You might want to do right by others, help others see a better world and better days because you care, not because you have a backchannel billion dollar deal and this puff piece will help seal that deal.
That said a justice system or governments might decide to mandate community service at a certain point. Keeping an unjust system from putting the incarcerated to work like slaves, from mandating community service is not a guarantee. Cheap labor is profitable, might profit some more than others.
If you believe that others will look out for you in ideal ways, how does that change your choices? Less need to prepare? Less need to defend oneself? Less need for risk mitigation? Less need to have the right words prepared for legal gotchas in advance? Less need for the right laws to be written that profit both you and others, not just others? Less need to worry about a government that borrows, filters money into the hands of the rich – we could sell to the government but we need to increase the price and the government doesn’t have money for that – until, they do now.
Does our national debt give the feeling of God will right that in advance for you, family, friends, fellow citizens and future generations? Does wars in the world give feeling of less money or more money will be needed for defense? If God actually righted it, there might be less need to borrow and less need to be protective. It is consequential – what money, and who’s money is spent – which corporations win and which corporations lose is all of consequence.
Each day actions that are consequential are turned up in the World – some win and some lose. The idea expectation of nothing in return is a blanket statement, can be applied to all things does not feel correct. A teacher gives homework, homework like fixing the national debt – will expectation be people have to work on that, or “they were supposed to expect nothing in return”?
I get it, you want the greatest new fighter jet and you want to be able to help people in natural disaster zones – you don’t have enough money, so you can borrow extra – you will look like saints, likely make it up in GDP next year – but it keeps on progressing – and there are winners and losers, while the rich get richer and the tent cities in USA get more plentiful. Combine that with increased cost of medical and reduced access – it is a certain recipe, a certain recipe I think The God that kicked us out of Eden might expect us to fix – as all things possible through God might not cut the mustard on delivered. Those 28 hypothermia deaths? Just part of God’s plan?
Debt per citizen at $350,000+ per tax payer, will go nice while sleeping in a tent?
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