A Heart For the Poor

 

 

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word:

 

Isa 10:1 "Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, Who write misfortune, Which they have prescribed  2 To rob the needy of justice, And to take what is right from the poor of My people, That widows may be their prey, And that they may rob the fatherless 3 What will you do in the day of punishment, And in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory? 4 Without Me they shall bow down among the prisoners, And they shall fall among the slain." For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.

 

This is about money isn’t it? Note some of the words used in verses 1 and 2: “Misfortune, rob, take, rob (again) Rewriting or ignoring God’s Word for the sake of lining  pockets will bring the wrath of God down on His church and a nation. (Woe!)

 

What will you do when the wrath of God falls? “To whom will you flee for help?” Will you turn to your bank account for relief? Ps 62:10 says, “Do not trust in oppression, Nor vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them. And,

Pr 11:28 He who trusts in his riches will fall, But the righteous will flourish like foliage. And,

Ps 52:6 The righteous also shall see and fear, And shall laugh at him, saying, 7 "Here is the man who did not make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness."And,

Pr 22:16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, And he who gives to the rich, will surely come to poverty.

 

Anyone who reads the Bible knows that God has a special place in His heart for the needy, the poor, the widow and the fatherless. If we call ourselves God’s children should we not also have His heart?

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word.