Shows Contempt For Their Maker

Proverbs 14:21,30-31 – It is a sin to despise one’s neighbor, but blessed is the one who is kind to the needy…A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.

Genesis 1:26 – Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

James 2:1 – My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism.

Application:

• ·         Humans are the climax of God’s creative activity, and God has “crowned them with glory and honor” and made them rulers over the rest of His creation.
• ·         Sharing food, lending money and defending rights are ways one can show kindness. Such a person “honors God” and “will lack nothing”.
• ·         God does not show favoritism—nor should believers.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV