This Facebook post says it all!

The Nigerian does have a STRONG sense of ENTITLEMENT to food.

It's food food food!

Here's FOOD for thought.

Do consider copying and posting onto WhatsApp and your social media. I will.

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IF A MAN WON’T WORK NEITHER SHOULD HE EAT

This message was sent to us by one of our Readers who requested to remain anonymous. We reproduce it here for our learning, warning and action.
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“Africa has the world’s poorest and hungriest people, yet it is the RICHEST continent when it comes to natural resources. And its people are the most religious (not godly though), yet are labelled “the wretched of the earth” because of the squalor, lack, corruption and violence societies live by.

In Nigeria, and it applies to all Black Africa, there are extremely high levels of unemployment and under-employment with many people BEGGING for food and money. Not just the beggars on the streets, but across the board there is constant begging. Relatives beg those abroad to send them money or items. Relatives in the country beg for food items, for money to pay hospital and school fees. People beg for phones, for money to start a business etc. It is just continuous begging and tourists and foreign visitors are also harassed with begging requests from Nigerians. It seems that people feel entitled to what others have and will regularly beg.

It has become so commonplace for Nigerians (and Africans) to use POVERTY AS AN EXCUSE to do nothing, and to beg at every opportunity. People feel ENTITLED TO FOOD but this is what Scripture says about eating in 2 Thessalonians 3:10b:-
- The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat. (NIV)
- That if any would not work, neither should he eat. (KJV)
- If anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either. (Amplified)
- If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. (ESV)

The Bible is CLEAR that anybody who is NOT WORKING should NOT eat. This must be a hard saying to those Nigerians (and Africans) who feel ENTITLED to daily food. This is what God, the Creator of man says. If we honour the Bible as God’s Word we will value its teaching.

Let’s look at it again. If YOU are not working, God says YOU are NOT entitled to food. You may have no job but you MUST WORK so that God will see you as deserving food. So to all those Nigerians who are unemployed, you must find work to do each day, or at least from Monday to Friday. You must do WORK even if you get no pay for it. The environment is filthy, so wear appropriate protection and find a patch to look after (decide this with your God). Corruption fills the land and continent, so find some anti-corruption work to do online or physically. Volunteer with an NGO. Tweet and re-Tweet. Like and comment on Facebook. Sign online petitions. Volunteer at a school to help in classes. Be a mentor. Prepare plant seedlings of mango, avocado, lemon, oranges etc then plant them in schools, hospitals, streets etc. Do the research to find how to do so. Consult with lecturers at your local polytechnic, college or university. FIND WORK TO DO! Even if you are unemployed.

God says if a man does not work he is not entitled to food. So even if you are unemployed, God insists you must work. Unemployment is one thing. Work is quite another thing. Let us not confuse them. When you are working, then God in His Providence will see to it that you eat. Begging is not the answer. Doing WORK is the answer. Nigeria and all Black Africa is in a bad sad state because those who should work are begging instead.
There is environmental cleanliness work to be done. There is anti-corruption work to be done. There is educational assistance work in schools to be done. There is social action work to be done. There is citizen participation work to be done.
God says clearly that if you do not work, you are NOT ENTITLED to food. And you harm your own self with laziness and begging for “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” (Galatians 6:7)

Being unemployed is not an excuse for idleness. Poverty is not any excuse not to work, it is also not an excuse to be lazy or to steal (and commit crime). Not in God’s Eyes anyway. And it is what God thinks that counts. Not what I think. Not what you think. Those who read this message have a DUTY to correct citizens and tell them that no matter their condition, they must WORK if they want to eat.

Note: Of course the disabled are in a different category.”


SOURCE:
Christianity for Africans
https://web.facebook.com/Christianity4Africans/

Bible is meant to make people wise.

But it seem to have confused a lot more

No doubt, there is dignity in Labour. In fact, spending money you earned from your skill, idea or effort gives much more joy and pleasure than handouts.

However, the truth is that there will always be the poor among us who will need help. Sh*t happens and people who find themselves in deep sh*t needs help to come out of the sh*t. That is why the same God who discouraged laziness also encouraged charity and generosity.

But speaking biblically, it is rather ironical that Jesus wasn't as harsh as this writer when he fed thousands of people against the advice of his apostles to send them home.

sapientia:
Bible is meant to make people wise.

But it seem to have confused a lot more

What's confusing about Scripture's PLAIN teaching that: if a man does not work he is not entitled to food?

Ah. But those Nigerians who believe in their own minds that they should eat even though they do no work, they will be confused. Because food without work is what they want to enjoy.

This post made it PLAIN and CLEAR that even an unemployed person must find some kind of work to do so that God will know he deserves his food.