Title
Delivering The Poor and Needy
Scripture
“Deliver the poor and needy; free them from the hand of the wicked.”
(Psalm 82:4:)
Devotional
The welfare system is not delivering the poor and needy from the hand of the wicked. In fact, it is keeping them under the power of wickedness. To free the poor is to get them out of their poverty and need. It is much easier to give a handout than a hand up. It soothes the conscience, but does little to relieve the poor from their poverty. ?Poverty is more than the absence of finances. It is the absence of the ability and resources needed to acquire finances. Poverty is not to be awarded; it is to be reversed. Nevertheless, because of our sinful nature, we will vote ourselves a stipend whenever possible. ?Herein is the demise of government and the ruin of society. Proverbs explains it very well, “Much food is in the fallow ground of the poor, and for lack of justice there is waste.” Let us do justly to the poor and needy by getting them out of their poverty and need.