Flawed Favour
“But Festus, wanting to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and there be judged before me concerning these things?”” Acts 25:9 NKJV https://www.bible.com/114/act.25.9.nkjv In today’s day of social distancing, even favour from the most trusted allies, partner, and associates are treated with suspicion. Actually, we merely have an unprecedented moment of exposing the innate characteristics and the derivative of seeking true help from mortal man. For example, in governance and the provincial politics of Caesarea, the newly appointed Governor Festus apparently needed the solidarity and support of the Jews in Jerusalem in order to prove competence and control in leadership. While the politics of favour that embrace the association with men is not bad, the version of such politics that encourages the alienation of God is the problem. Even with the favour that comes from God (position, prosperity, personality, etc), man...