God doesn't care about the poor because they are poor but because
they are people and God loves people. The trouble is people do show partiality,
fawning over the powerful while neglecting those with the greatest need, i.e.
the weak and the orphan; the lowly and the destitute. But in God’s design for human
community those who wield the greatest power have the greatest responsibility
to act justly in the same way that “to whom much is given much is required.”
(Luke 12:48) When Jesus half-brother James wrote about works produced by faith
he put it in the context of providing for the poor. “If a brother or sister is
naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace;
keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs,
what is the good of that?” (James 2:15, 16) Of course the wishing well is as
important as the providing for basic needs. That is one of the reasons I make
eggs to order for our room in the inn guests because when it comes down to it having
the choice of sunny side up or over easy or fried or scrambled is of equal if
not more value to the one being served than the egg itself. It’s all about relationship.
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