BALANCING THE YOKE

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“Balancing the Yoke”

By Donna Coffee

Imagine never being able to accomplish your goals and purpose in your life. Now imagine a mountain being right in the middle of the street as you are trying to get something to eat, or simply going home. Faith one could suspect, would move the mountain with ease, but even mustard on a hot dog is not easy to come by for some of us in today’s age where most American’s are one paycheck away from becoming amongst the 5-8 million people amongst our homeless societies. Homelessness plagued me as I was joined to the 3% of its victims in America for a total of 3 years that in retrospect, blessed me beyond measure after I received clear understanding.

Homelessness is not going anywhere until we take control over a legislation that thrives off of poverty as its wealth contains the whips that lash out on those bound by its invisible chains. Breaking this yoke is going to take faith and works, but the laborers of this particular harvest are few indeed. People involved in homelessness have lost their keys of hope, as the home is simply a prerequisite. Have you ever thought to yourself concerning a homeless person, “They got in it, they should get themselves out?” Even in the bible God commands in Deuteronomy chapter 15:11, “For the poor will never cease to be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.”

The definition of poor in Hebrew concerning this verse means powerless to accomplish and end, the world considers poverty as not having money. Oppression is much more than lack of provision and is not to be taken lightly although our government and other leaders would gather that mental-illness, drugs, imprisonment, poverty, and pride are the leading causes of this plague. This five-fingered outlook of terminology should be rolled up into a fist and pounded upon many drums to ring out a song of falsities.

When our government carries only one act, the first and only, to assist the homeless, yes we will always have the poor amongst us because this is the way it was designed as means to extract more money from tax payers and the church tithers, yet provide no real aid to those in need as claimed and advertised. The McKinney Act of 1987 is the only major federal legislative response to homelessness, and it has been amended 4 times to no avail, because it is the only one and is conditional. The government gives welfare to states that are bound by the terms of the act, but if a state chooses not to accept the funds they do not have to implement it. With this type of “option” how will we ever end poverty, even in the Garden of Eden, there was no option. The couple was granted access to all the trees and commanded not to eat from one. There was a buffet of choices for well-being and one choice for death, but the government provides One Act for living and many outlets for death.

Another crime with the McKinney Act is it is only in place for children. A child’s family needs to be considered in their growth or square one stays consistently open. Where is our buffet from the government for our well-being? Our government and its 501 (c)(3) issuance guides our churches and organizations to extract aid from us for their so-called causes, yet the problem grows worst like the woman with the issue of blood spoken of in the biblical book of Mark chapter 5. Now it is time to close up the long-time wound and stand against policies that are optional concerning a better economy and way of living life and life more abundantly.

It is high time for the Abundance Act that is perspicacious in all regards.