“Resolved, to be endeavoring to find out fit objects of charity and liberality” (Resolution 13).
Believers should always be looking for people to show mercy and charity to in order to glorify God through Jesus Christ. But not everyone is a fit object of these things in terms of physical relief. Many people have their hands out, but not many are fit objects of charity. We must try to be sure that people are not just begging as a way to avoid labor and are really needy. Most people have limited means and so in order to be good stewards and honor God as they want to they need to try to be sure that individuals they help are fit objects of charity.
In trying to find fit objects for charity we emulate God in the Gospel. There are many people that want to be saved, but they do see themselves as truly needy and without means to help themselves. Many want God to save them but do not really think that God needs to do it all. They want God to help them so that salvation will be easier than doing it all by themselves. So in finding people that are truly needy we look for people that truly cannot help themselves and so in an analogous way they are like those that are poor in spirit. In this our help for people is like the Gospel which helps those by sheer and total grace with no expectation of a payback. In this way Christians show the world in some way the Gospel of grace that is of nothing but mercy.
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