Helping the Poor

I have been seeing articles and news about the poor this Christmas season. Whether they should be helped or not is a personal choice, most of it based on personal beliefs. However what I find interesting is that many of these people will help serve food on Thanksgiving or give Christmas presents to the poor while during the rest of the year they live a lifestyle that does not lift a finger to help the poor. They talk about it a lot but the action is so little. It really is a dichotomy how people will say or do something just to make them feel better while not doing anything else. These poor people still live on the streets and do not have a reliable meal the other 363 days of the year. Where are these alleged helpers during this time?

Lip service seems to be a common theme in America. They talk reams and reams of words and sometimes get very emotional but yet their actions speak louder than their words. What have they done to get these poor people off the streets? It's like the person who gives a dollar to the homeless man while going on and living his life totally opposite the rest of the time. Do they realize that giving a dollar will not help get the man off the streets?

This is really no different than the person who goes to church on Sunday and acts good during service and a few hours afterward just to wash away the guilt for all the things they do during the week. They lie, cheat, steal, and ruin people out of pettiness and then Sundays they go to church. Somehow they believe this makes them a good person? Somehow they believe they are not going to hell. It is true the Jesus forgives one for their sins but someone who acts unChristianlike during the rest of the week and goes to church on Sunday and then start their cycle of pettiness again on Monday is not going to Heaven. There is no sincerity. Jesus can tell the difference between a phony Christian and real Christian. I have had the pleasure of meeting a few real Christians but these people are far and few in between.