Malachi 3:5 · World English Bible
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
The measure of a person shows in how he treats the ones who cannot strike back. The sorcerer sells a shortcut around reality.
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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
The measure of a person shows in how he treats the ones who cannot strike back. The sorcerer sells a shortcut around reality. The adulterer betrays the vow he swore, the false witness poisons the word everyone must trust, and the strong man clips the wages of a laborer who has no leverage. Each act preys on someone weaker and bets that nothing is watching. Malice grows in the gap between the powerful and the defenseless because it believes itself unseen.
A witness stands closer than the guilty man imagines, and the account is kept whether he believes in it or not. The widow, the orphan, the stranger: how you treat them, when they can offer you nothing and demand nothing, is the clearest picture of who you are. To lose the sense that anything watches is to hand yourself over to your worst impulses. The reckoning arrives as the weight of what you did, coming back to find you.
Clinical Psychology lens
How do I behave toward people who have no way to hold me accountable?
Know that there is an eye that sees and an ear that hears, and that everything you do is written down. Live as though the account is kept, because it is.
A person who injures the weak and calls it business has not escaped anything, because he has become the kind of man who does it. The damage lands first on the one who caused it.
Heaven keeps no favorites and plays no tricks, it simply gives back what was given. The ledger closes on its own without needing anyone to enforce it.
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