The poor among us...

The poor.....among us.....


One of my daughters shared an article about city slums....interesting...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/25/welcome-to-the-billion-man-slum.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

It made me think about the poor among us...this particular daughter went to Brazil and worked with children who lived in the dump of a major city..each family had a particular thing they collected in the dump to use or sell.....

We have  a multitude of world organizations, national groups, local helps for encouraging and enabling the poor among us...right now the push is for school supplies for poorer children, coats for kids, diapers for babies, clothing for the homeless, glasses for the needy, Samaritan Christmas boxes, etc, etc. etc...

Our own family has been poor and rich...I didn't realize until later that we were poor compared to others when I was growing up...we always had food, clothing and a home....but I didn't realize how my mother stretched the food to make it stretch further into the end of the month....sugar and butter sandwiches weren't too nutritious, but I thought they were a treat!?  Little did I know...

There are a lot of verses referring to the poor throughout the Bible...Ruth and Naomi were poor and reaped from the laws given earlier about the grain to be left for the poor people on the edges  of the fields...The Lord has regard for the poor and needy...no partiality ....

I love collecting to give...I love to see or imagine smiles on children's faces getting a gift that they receive...watching the scenes about the Christmas boxes, the teachers receiving school supplies, coats being warn, food being distributed...we have so much, but we receive more when we give....thank YOU for giving us gifts to give .....


For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
Romans 12:4-5 NIV

Leviticus 19:10 Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:15 “‘Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.

Leviticus 23:22 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the Lord your God.’”

Deuteronomy 24:14 Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
Deuteronomy 24:15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Psalm 34:6 This poor man called, and the Lord heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles.

Proverbs 14:31 Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.

Proverbs 17:5 Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 22:2 Rich and poor have this in common: The Lord is the Maker of them all.

Proverbs 22:9 The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.

Proverbs 31:20 She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.

Matthew 26:11 The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.

Mark 10:21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Mark 12:42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.
Mark 12:43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.

http://video.samaritanspurse.org/good-news-great-joy-2014-3/