Christmas is all about giving, but few people remember the poor in their giving. I was glad that I am not of those people. A lot of people find the poor and the homeless annoying. That's probably because they sometimes interrupt you while you are eating at a restaurant (fast food) or shopping at the mall. Still, more people are skeptical of the poor because of reports that some well-to-do people pretend to be poor to receive money instead of working. The Bible says that a man who does not work shouldn't eat (see 2 Thessalonians 3:10), but some people are poor because they cannot work.
Nonetheless, the Bible mentions many benefits of giving to the poor. Perhaps, the most famous passage is Psalm 41: 1-3:
"Oh, the joys of those who are kind to the poor!
The Lord rescues them when they are in trouble.
The Lord protects them and keeps them alive.
He gives them prosperity in the land and
rescues them from their enemies.
The Lord nurses them when they are sick
and restores them to health."
Other verses include:
Acts 10:31: God notices our gifts to the poor.
Proverbs 19:17: If you help the poor, you are lending to the poor and he will repay you.
Proverbs 28:27: Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to poverty will be cursed.
About Me
- Sandra Remilien
- Sandra Remilien is an American. Sandra Remilien is a Christian Miami native who loves to write. She is currently unemployed because a jealous, illiterate Haitian witch named Jeaccinette Philogene has been doing witchcraft to monitor her so she can do witchcraft on every job that she applies to so they do not hire her. Jeaccinette did witchcraft to get the password to her blog and gave someone and Guylene and Luna, who did witchcraft on her, the password to her blog so they could add things, change what she wrote so words are misspelled and it does not make sense and so people do not know the truth about the witchcraft that she did because she is stupid. Sandra Remilien does not like Haitians because they do witchcraft. Jeaccinette is doing witchcraft to make people say Sandra Remilien is Haitian and was born in Haiti so she can do witchcraft to make Sandra Remilien uplift Haitians. Sandra received a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University in 2008 and a bachelors degree in print journalism from the University of Miami in 2006.
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