"The one who despises his neighbor sins, but whoever shows kindness to the poor will be happy." Proverbs 14:21
It feels good to help people. We chide ourselves for embracing that fact because we think our own happiness isn't a fitting result of an altruistic act.
What if it's supposed to feel good?
Maybe God told us to care for the needy because it's right but also allows us to feel its joy so we want to keep doing so? Maybe moral "rightness' and feeling right are more inextricably tied than I originally imagined?
God is good. And socio-economic reconciliation is good, too. I think somebody once called it Christian Hedonism.
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