"19 "When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your "GOD MAY BLESS YOU" in all the work of your hands.
20 When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.
21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.
22 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this."
Recently I read about a man who was barred from a local business because he was eating from the waste containers. It wasn't as if the man was stealing people's food from their table. He was eating food they had either thrown away, or left for someone else to throw away. You know, there are some people who feel they are above cleaning up after themselves when they eat!
As far back as in Deuteronomy GOD instructs HIS children to care for those less fortunate. No fatherless child planned to be fatherless. Most widows didn't plan to be widowed. GOD knew there would be needs and HE directed HIS children to use things HE gave them to provide for those needs. And how things would be better if we would follow the directions from GOD. Destitute people would have a source for provisions. An orphan would be taken care of by someone who is a fit example of kindness. Widows would not be left to "fin" for themselves. If only we followed GOD's instructions our needs would be supplied (Philippians 4:19) and we would supply needs of others!
Former President Ronald W. Reagan said "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face". President Reagan was not perfect, but he nailed end it with this quote! GOD's Word isn't something that mankind can ignore or minimize. Mankind has gotten/taken things out of GOD's order. We have turned that "GOD MAY BLESS YOU" into GOD bless our government so our government can give freebies to everyone in need! If the the government fails we wonder what went wrong! It couldn't be us, could it, as we are too "christian" to allow desperate situations to exist when GOD has been so good to us?
But how many of us want to see someone taking food out of a waste receptacle for their nourishment? Yet the "Answer Book" to ALL of life's problems goes largely unbothered in most of our homes. GOD told Joshua in Joshua 1:7 "Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to ALL THE LAW THAT MOSES MY SERVANT COMMANDED YOU. DO NOT TURN FROM IT to the right hand or to the left, THAT YOU MAY HAVE GOOD SUCCESS wherever you go". Yet all we are interested in is "GOD MAY BLESS YOU" and we forget about following HIS Law!
FATHER GOD, I pray you will move my heart to recognize NEEDS wherever they exists and that you will use me so that "GOD MAY BLESS YOU" to more people!
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