Protecting Widows

Living in Covenant

A Personal Perspective

Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5) 

A Mother-Daughter Covenant 

Deuteronomy 24:17-22 The Message
17-18 Make sure foreigners and orphans get their just rights. Don’t take the cloak of a widow as security for a loan. Don’t ever forget that you were once slaves in Egypt and God, your God, got you out of there. I command you: Do what I’m telling you.
19-22 When you harvest your grain and forget a sheaf back in the field, don’t go back and get it; leave it for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow so that God, your God, will bless you in all your work. When you shake the olives off your trees, don’t go back over the branches and strip them bare—what’s left is for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow. And when you cut the grapes in your vineyard, don’t take every last grape—leave a few for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow. Don’t ever forget that you were a slave in Egypt. I command you: Do what I’m telling you.

For Reflection
When one is transformed by the Holy Spirit, one becomes sensitive to the needs of others. It is not a matter of understanding and obeying the rules.  Instead, a concern for the equitable distribution of one's resources and the well being of others is inherent in one's perception of one's authentic self; the self into which one was born.

Righteousness becomes as natural as breathing.  One acts not on the expectation of a reward or to avoid God's wrath.  One acts as a result of a face-to-face relationship with God.

Pray

Pray that you will be able to share a portion of your resources for meeting the basic human needs of others.  Pray for those who suffer and act on their behalf.

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