Deuteronomy 15:11. For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.
But why should there always be poverty eh, especially when there is currently so much prosperity in the land? That might have been closer to the truth when Moses was laying down the principles for the Israelites to live by, but it definitely should not be true today. Granted, everybody can’t be filthy rich, but nobody should be dirt poor either in the midst of such abundance. The income disparity; the gap between the haves and have nots is much too wide, and sadly, instead of decreasing, it’s growing even wider, not only in the western countries, but all over the world. That snide saying about the rich getting richer and the poor, poorer, is no joke. It’s a fact. Recent statistics have shown that in the last twenty years or so, the incomes of the wealthy have increased by much much more than that of the working class. The latter’s real earning power has actually fallen, what with inflation and actual roll backs in worker’s wages. And it’s only the lowly worker who’s bearing the brunt of the burden to increase the almighty bottom line, because the remuneration for those at the top have spiralled to the point of obscenity. Food banks, children going to school hungry and Homelessness have now become the rule rather than the exception. But millionaires are also now a dime a dozen, and soon, so will billionaires. All to what purpose Friends? We can’t take any of it with us, so we’ve got to try and lessen, if not stop this terrible inequity, else it’s only going to get worse. As believers we’re supposed to help each other in whatever way we can. As Moses said, we’ve got to open our hands wide to our brothers, to the poor and needy in the land. It’s our bounden duty. So please, please, let’s all try, let’s all concentrate on helping those who don’t have, by sharing some of what we have, no matter how little, by getting our wealthy friends and associates to recognize the problem and work with us to alleviate it. Then we’ll really be walking our talk, really doing the will of God. Much LOVE…and MUCH MORE SHARING with the less fortunate!
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