Bedside Watchman The Poor and Needy

Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

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May 7th -- Deut. 24

The Poor and Needy

What a delightful peep at the right way of life is prescribed by God's beautiful law (Deuteronomy 24:19-21). Here are no "thrifty" scrapings to the last straw, but an open-handed liberality that leaves handfuls for the poor. No one could starve under such a system: no one sink to the despairings depths we see yawning around us in modern times. Of course it cannot be -- now. But it ought to be, and it will be, when we have God's Kingdom back among us, to "judge for the poor and the needy, and break in pieces the oppressors." We wait God's hand in the matter; and He says, "They shall not be ashamed that wait for me."

Robert Roberts, Diary of A Voyage, page 177

"When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. (Deut. 24:19-21)."