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'Blessed is he who considers the poor ...' Psalm 41:1
You must have seen the adverts on TV: you know the ones: they let us look into the lives of people living in extreme difficulty or unimaginable poverty. Young and old, who have no food, no clean water, no opportunity to be educated and they ask for our help. Or you've seen the guy in town, selling the Big Issue. But what do you do? Change the channel without as much as a second thought? Walk past? Do you care what will happen to them if we don't help? God does!
And he says to us, 'Blessed is he who considers the poor; The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.' Basically, 'You watch their backs and I'll watch yours.' Isn't that a massive incentive for us help? Be careful not to get so wrapped up in your own little world that you find you haven't even got the headspace to think about anyone else ... let alone help them.
Because if God sorts out all the troubles of those who help the poor then surely the opposite is also true: those who aren't bothered about the poor discover God's not so bothered about them? Now there's a scary thought. If we think about sorting out world poverty for too long it can bust our brain.
We can come to the conclusion, 'I'm just little old me - I can't make a difference'. But today, know that you can make a difference, decide today what you can do, then do it.
written by Bob Gass
'Blessed is he who considers the poor ...' Psalm 41:1
You must have seen the adverts on TV: you know the ones: they let us look into the lives of people living in extreme difficulty or unimaginable poverty. Young and old, who have no food, no clean water, no opportunity to be educated and they ask for our help. Or you've seen the guy in town, selling the Big Issue. But what do you do? Change the channel without as much as a second thought? Walk past? Do you care what will happen to them if we don't help? God does!
And he says to us, 'Blessed is he who considers the poor; The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.' Basically, 'You watch their backs and I'll watch yours.' Isn't that a massive incentive for us help? Be careful not to get so wrapped up in your own little world that you find you haven't even got the headspace to think about anyone else ... let alone help them.
Because if God sorts out all the troubles of those who help the poor then surely the opposite is also true: those who aren't bothered about the poor discover God's not so bothered about them? Now there's a scary thought. If we think about sorting out world poverty for too long it can bust our brain.
We can come to the conclusion, 'I'm just little old me - I can't make a difference'. But today, know that you can make a difference, decide today what you can do, then do it.
written by Bob Gass
