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The Bible tells us to do our work as unto the Lord.  Matthew tells us about the Lord dividing the sheep from the goats or the faithful from the unfaithful and saying, “Inasmuch as you have done it to the least of the brethren, you have done it unto Me.”

I have nothing against those who the Lord has prospered and enabled to become wealthy through legitimate means.  But, what about those who find a person in dire need of medical, dental, or legal care?  If God has given you a wonderful talent and skill, would you want to stand before Him and answer why you took advantage of His suffering and used it to extort a hundred dollars an hour from Him refusing to help Him unless He pays?

Will you tell Him, “Business is business”?

Doctors, lawyers, dentists, and other professionals need and deserve to be paid honorably for their services.  They have bills to pay, employees to pay, insurance costs, and families to feed.

What about the widow?  The orphan?  The victim of divorce?  What about those who have been stripped of their possessions through injustice, such as no-fault divorce or who have encountered some disability that has disabled them from applying for disability insurance until it was too late?  Should you turn them all aside so you could have a little more convenience and luxury while they go to their graves with a tooth abscess you could have fixed in a few minutes of your time?   Or should you kindly offer to fix the problem free and then let your secretary send them a hefty bill and claim nobody knew anything about the generous offer so that the person’s credit is injured severely until he or she can pay up?

Is it godly to find a person in need of legal protection and extort a hundred dollars per hour from that person lest he or she be denied justice?  If you would throw the children of a faithful spouse to the unfaithful and abusive spouse if they don’t pay, how can it be said that you would not do so again to get them to pay even more?  Don’t pretend to doubt that this could ever happen.  It already does.  Often.  Frequently.  Regularly.  Predictably.  Our American Family Court system feasts off the faithful and their children inflicting injustice and demanding payment for protection which in most cases they will never receive.

Has any nation the right to call itself “great” or the “home of the free and the brave” merely because they can find another nation that brings worse atrocities to bear upon its citizens?  Does a nation become great by telling all objectors to leave or by comparing themselves with the worst traits of the worst rulers?  No way!  Every demon in hell could point to a worse demon and claim greatness by the same logic, but there never has nor could there ever be an honorable demon in hell.  So, in light of that fact, should we aspire to be the least of the devils in hell or should we aspire to be brought in and honored by Jesus Christ for having been faithful to Him and those He loves?