We still have some spaces available in our prayer vigil for tomorrow through Thursday. The available times are 7-8pm tomorrow and 1-5am, 8-9am and 10am -noon on Thursday. This is a great opportunity to lift your prayers for our city and world. Please email or call me with questions or to sign up. THere will be someone in the building all night, so you won't be alone.
Today's reading comes from Deuteronomy, a book of sermons and final instructions for Israel before they entered the Promised Land. The topic today is care for the poor, which generally happened through loans from their neighbors. Those loans had no interest attached and all debts were to be cancelled every seven years. How does God call us to care for the poor among us today?
God bless,
Sam
Deuteronomy 15:7-11
7If there is among you anyone in need, a member of your community in any of your towns within the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor. 8You should rather open your hand, willingly lending enough to meet the need, whatever it may be. 9Be careful that you do not entertain a mean thought, thinking, “The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,” and therefore view your needy neighbor with hostility and give nothing; your neighbor might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt. 10Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. 11Since there will never cease to be some in need on the earth, I therefore command you, “Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.”
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