People who have experienced a part of life that I have not and have a wisdom of things that I know nothing about. People, that I know without a doubt, can teach me something I didn’t know before. People that I can touch and love and help and be available to. What if the orphans in my life are kids in my life who need a little extra love or attention, the misfits? What if my widows are single moms who are overworked, overstressed and struggle with fear and loneliness? These are people that are definitely in my life. But what if I extend that same principle to, say, people new to church or the area or those who are not yet believers (foreigners)? The passage says to remember that we were once foreigners – once new, once on the outside, once without Christ. I don’t know that many foreigners or orphans and just a couple of widows.
This is where I need to think a little outside the box. Okay, God, I think You are trying to tell me something.
So it made sense to me that this would come to mind.īut over the past two days, I have been reading the book of Deuteronomy (in the bible), and the phrases about caring for the foreigner and the orphan and the widow were numerous. God tells us that true religion is lived out by caring for the orphan and the widow.
Over the course of the past week, the phrase in the back of my mind has been “orphans and widows”. Or maybe it’s just for confirmation and emphasis. Maybe it’s because I just don’t get it at first. Maybe it’s because I’m not listening well the first time.
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