From one of my other blogs. A tale of poverty.
This is an interesting tale. What do you do when the check doesn’t come and your rent is due? What do you do when it happens 6 months in a row and you now stand in eviction court? What do you say?
Poverty is real and it has real consequences. What will we say when it happens to us? What will we do?
It is way to easy to judge the poor. Get a job we say.
Jesus says ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited…
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That was really good, Michael. Sad, but truthful and healing and needing to be said. Poverty will always be with us,but what needn’t be with us is poverty of spirit, despair, hopelessness. That’s our job as Christians to make sure nobody walks through the world without knowing the Father’s great love for them.
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