Please make a dedicated effort today to help a poor person in some way.
It’s what God wants us to do:
“Those who are kind to the poor lend to the Lord, and He will reward them for what they have done.” (Proverbs 19:17)
Perhaps you’ll stop by the grocery store and buy a day’s worth of pop-top canned food and beverage to keep bagged in the floorboard of your car so that you might hand it to a homeless person at a street corner, along with an evangelistic tract and printed invitation to your church.
Perhaps you’ll buy a box of food or diapers to donate to the local benevolence pantry.
Perhaps you’ll pay the school field trip fee for one of your kid’s classmates whose parent just lost his or her job.
There are all sorts of ways that you can be God’s vessel of blessing to someone in need.
Whatever we do for another will never equate to what God has done for us in Christ.
Jesus was kind to us beyond anything we might imagine because He took the punishment for our sin that was intense beyond anything we can imagine.
Jesus received His glorious reward in heaven.
Be generous to the poor, my Christian friend, and you can be sure that your glorious reward will be awaiting you in heaven.
As always, I love you
Martin
