Charles N Nwanze

Charles N Nwanze “He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker”

06/11/2026

The prophet Micah declared, leaders and merchants often "covet fields and seize them" (Micah 2:2), revealing how greed destroys both neighborly love and social justice.

06/04/2026

Redemption is not only freedom from oppression, but freedom for righteousness.

When God delivered Israel from Egypt, He was rescuing a people who had experienced the cruelty of exploitation firsthand. They knew what it meant to be enslaved, overworked, deprived of justice, and treated as less than human. The Exodus was therefore not merely a political liberation; it was a moral and spiritual liberation. God was revealing Himself as the defender of the oppressed.

After bringing them out, God gave them a law designed to prevent them from becoming what they had escaped. Again and again the Law reminds Israel:

"Remember that you were slaves in Egypt."

This memory was meant to shape their conduct. Because they had been oppressed, they were forbidden to oppress others. Because they had received mercy, they were to show mercy. Because God had redeemed them freely, they were to care for the poor, the widow, the orphan, and the foreigner.

The Law of Moses contained safeguards against the accumulation of power and wealth in the hands of a few. Israelites were commanded to lend without interest to needy brothers, release debts in the seventh year, leave portions of their harvest for the poor, pay workers promptly, and restore family lands in the Jubilee. These laws restrained greed and protected human dignity.

this sense, God's law was a law of liberty. It liberated the strong from the tyranny of greed and liberated the weak from the crushing weight of exploitation. Freedom was not defined as the ability to do whatever one wanted; freedom was the ability to live according to justice, mercy, and love.

This is why the prophets constantly condemned those who oppressed the poor while claiming to worship God. To exploit the vulnerable was to deny the very purpose of the Exodus. Israel had been redeemed from Pharaoh so that they would not become Pharaoh to one another.

The principle remains relevant today. Whenever economic systems, governments, businesses, or individuals profit by crushing the weak, withholding justice, or exploiting need, they stand contrary to the spirit of God's liberating law. True obedience to God creates communities where power serves rather than dominates, wealth blesses rather than exploits, and freedom is exercised for the good of others.

The Exodus teaches that God's salvation is not complete when chains are broken; it is complete when former slaves learn to practice justice, mercy, and righteousness toward one another.

06/03/2026

Human nature still urges us to maximize profit, protect our own interests, and accumulate more. Yet God's moral vision calls us to something higher.

A business owner may be legally entitled to exploit every opportunity for gain, yet righteousness may require fair wages, honesty, and compassion.

A landlord may have the right to extract the highest possible rent, yet mercy may lead him to work with a struggling tenant.

A lender may be able to charge excessive fees, yet justice requires consideration for those already burdened.

An employer may seek only productivity, yet God values the well-being of workers.

The question is not merely, "What am I allowed to do?" but, "What does love of neighbor require?"

06/01/2026

God's people are to be governed not by greed but by love.

04/11/2026

You will not abandon her soul in Sheol. For You will bring her soul up from Sheol. From the depths of the earth. From the depths of Sheol

04/05/2026

Two years ago, they died.

Not metaphorically. Not symbolically.
They were lowered into the earth. Voices wept over them. Hands released them. Time moved on without them. Seasons changed twice. People learned how to live with their absence.

Dust claimed what was left.

And yet somewhere beyond sight, beyond breath, beyond the reach of human understanding God was not finished.

“You who have shown me great and severe troubles…”

They had already seen suffering in life. But nothing compares to the silence of death. No struggle. No voice. No strength. Just stillness. The kind of stillness that declares: this is the end.

But heaven did not agree.

“…shall revive me again.”

Not revive as in recover.
Revive as in call back.

A command spoken into the depths:
Return.

And what the earth had swallowed, it could not keep.
What time had sealed, it could not hold.
What death had claimed, it had no authority to own.

“…and bring me up again from the depths of the earth.”

After two years—two full years—they rise.

Not as a ghost. Not as a memory.
But as a living contradiction to everything we believe about finality.

They carry the weight of two worlds:

The world that buried them
And the mystery that released them

Their voice trembles, not from weakness, but from knowing what lies beneath the surface of life. When they speak of God, it is no longer belief—it is encounter.

Because they have been where no one returns from.

And yet, they did.

God does not only save from death,
He reaches into it… waits… and calls you back even after time has written you off.

Two years gone.
And still not beyond His reach.

That is not survival.

That is resurrection.

03/28/2026

There was a woman whose story had already been written in past tense.
Mourning had run its course.
Tears had dried into memory.
People had learned how to live with her absence.

Her name had become a story people told:
“She was…”

Time had sealed the grave.
Two years is long enough for hope to stop knocking.
Long enough for the world to move on.
Long enough for death to feel permanent.

And then God interrupted history.

“You, Lord, brought me up from the realm of the dead…” (Psalm 30:3)

Not from the hospital bed.
Not from a moment of crisis.
From the realm of the dead.

This echoes the power seen in Jesus Christ when He stood before the tomb of Lazarus, a man four days gone, already claimed by decay. But this… this is even longer. This is beyond expectation, beyond theology as people comfortably understand it.

Two years means:

relationships had closed
voices had gone silent
the world had rewritten itself without her

And yet, God does not consult time before He moves.

Imagine the moment:

Breath returning where there was none.
A heart remembering its rhythm.
Eyes opening to a world that had already said goodbye.

One stepping out of what should have been irreversible.

Not revived—restored.
Not rescued—returned.

Psalm 30:3 now sounds like a thunderclap:

“I was not supposed to be here.
I crossed the line no one comes back from.
But God reached into the place beyond reach… and called me back.”

03/16/2026

The cries of the oppressed do not disappear into the air. They accumulate. They rise. And according to the biblical vision, they eventually summon justice.

03/16/2026

So the one who stands with the oppressed is labeled dangerous. He is called extremist. He is demonized until the world forgets why he was hated in the first place.

02/27/2026

Extreme wealth, on the scale of billions, depends on structural imbalances. Vast concentration of wealth implies vast concentration of value extracted from others.

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